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Sotheby's  i 

A  SECOND  SELECTION  OF  PRINTED  BOOKS  MOSTLY 
FROM  THE  FIFTEENTH  CENTURY 
THE  PROPERTY  OF  MR  J.  R.  RITMAN 

SOLD  FOR  THE  BENEFIT  OF  THE  BIBLIOTHECA  PHILOSOPHICA  HERMETICA,  AMSTERDAM 


LONDON       5  DECEMBER  2001 


A  SECOND  SELECTION  OF 
PRINTED  BOOKS  MOSTLY  FROM 
THE  FIFTEENTH  CENTURY 
THE  PROPERTY  OF 
MRJ.  R.  RITMAN 
SOLD  FOR  THE  BENEFIT  OF  THE 
BIBLIOTHECA  PHILOSOPHICA 
HERMETICA,  AMSTERDAM 

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A  SECOND  SELECTION  OF  PRINTED 
BOOKS  MOSTLY  FROM  THE 
FIFTEENTH  CENTURY 
THE  PROPERTY  OF  MR  J.  R.  RITMAN 

SOLD  FOR  THE  BENEFIT  OF  THE  BIBLIOTHECA 
PHILOSOPHICA  HERMETICA,  AMSTERDAM 


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FRONT  COVER  ILLUSTRATION 

Lot  42 

Conrad  von  Megenberg,  Buch 

Der  Natur,  1482 


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8/01    G.Book.Dix 


CONTENTS  16  Important  Notices  to  Buyers 

17  Session  One,  Lots  1-122 

Fifteenth  century,  Lots  1-105 
Sixteenth  and  seventeenth  centuries,  Lots  106-122 

250  Indexes 

275  Authenticity  Guarantee 

277  Catalogue  Subscriptions  Order  Form 

278  Guide  for  Prospective  Buyers 

281  Sotheby's  Kings  House 

282  VAT  Information  for  Buyers 
284  Conditions  of  Business 

287  Client  Services 

288  Specialist  Departments 
290  International  Offices 

294  Guide  for  Absentee  Bidders 

295  Absentee  Bid  Form 

296  Board  of  Directors 


J.  R.  Ritman 


It  is  certainly  no  coincidence  that  the  sale  of  my  private  collection  of  illuminated 
manuscripts,  incunabula  and  early  printed  books  to  establish  an  'endowment 
fund'  for  the  Bibliotheca  Philosophica  Hermetica  takes  place  in  the  transitory 
years  1999  to  2001,  years  which  form  a  bridge  towards  the  third  millennium,  a 
major  turning-point  in  time. 

INTRODUCTION 

1  his  same  period  has  also  produced  two  milestones  in  the  library  s  research 

activities: 

1 :  the  exhibition  'Marsilio  Ficino  e  il  ritorno  di  Ermete  Trismegisto'  (Marsilio 
Ficino  and  the  return  of  Hermes  Trismegistus),  which  ran  in  the  Biblioteca 
Medicea  Laurenziana  in  Florence  from  2  October  1999  to  8  January  2000.  The 
accompanying  catalogue  with  the  same  title  (326  pp.,  2nd  edition  2001) 
appeared  in  October  1999  to  mark  the  occasion. 

2:  preparations  are  in  full  swing  for  the  sequel  exhibition  to  be  held  at  the 
Biblioteca  Marciana  in  Venice  under  the  title  'Presenza  di  Ermete  Trismegisto:  da 
Bessarione  ai  Fratelli  della  Rosea  et  Aurea  Croce'  (Presence  of  Hermes 
Trismegistus:  from  Bessarion  to  the  Brothers  of  the  Rosy  and  Golden  Cross), 
which  is  planned  from  May  to  July  2002. 

The  Bibliotheca  Philosophica  Hermetica  in  Amsterdam  and  the  Biblioteca 
Marciana  in  Venice  have  selected  some  one  hundred  manuscripts  and  printed 
works  from  their  holdings.  The  exhibition  and  accompanying  catalogue  will 
shed  light  on  the  theme  of  Hermetica,  or  the  Hermetic  tradition,  from  the  time 
Cardinal  Bessarion  donated  his  collection  of  manuscripts,  which  he  had  earlier 
brought  over  from  Byzantium,  to  the  city  of  Venice  in  1468.  Significantly, 
Bessarion  had  feared  and  announced  the  fall  of  Constantinople  long  before  it 
happened.  His  collection  included  major  Hermetic  works  such  as  the  Asclepius 
and  the  Corpus  Hermeticum,  both  of  which  incidentally  were  supplied  with 
indexes  and  numerous  marginal  annotations  by  Bessarion  himself.  Dr.  C.  Gilly, 
head  of  the  library's  research  institute,  the  Ritman  Institute,  is  collaborating  with 
some  eight  specialists  in  the  field,  including  the  director  of  the  Biblioteca 
Marciana,  Dr.  M.  Zorzi,  to  provide  commentaries  and  themes  dealing  with  this 
fascinating  phenomenon  in  the  cultural  history  of  fifteenth-century  Italy.  The 
above  two  initiatives  throw  new  light  on  the  Hermetic  tradition,  which 
experienced  a  revival  in  the  fifteenth  century.  The  exhibition  in  Venice  and  the 
accompanying  catalogue  will  highlight  the  influence  of  this  tradition  on  the 
spiritual  history  of  Europe  into  the  eighteenth  century. 

The  history  of  Western  culture  has  taught  that  the  eve  of  a  new  millennium  in 
particular  is  of  great  historical  importance,  invariably  creating  vast  fields  of 
tension,  leaving  deep  furrows  within  the  fabric  of  social  relations. 


Two  thousand  years  ago,  at  the  start  of  the  Christian  Era,  a  new  cultural  impetus 
was  born,  which  issued  forth  directly  from  the  Hellenistic,  Jewish  and  Egyptian 
traditions,  with  Alexandria  as  its  new  cosmopolis.  This  impetus  gave  rise  to  a 
new  cultural  component,  in  addition  to  philosophy  and  theology,  which  Prof. 
Dr.  G.  Quispel,  the  Nestor  of  contemporary  historical  research  into  its  sources, 
INTRODUCTION  has  called  the  'Hermetic  Christian  gnosis'.  Central  to  this  highly  advanced 

cultural  impetus  is  the  Hermetic  axioma  'As  above,  so  below',  symbolising  the 
relation  between  God,  cosmos  and  man:  God  as  the  Creator,  the  cosmos  as  part 
of  revealed  creation,  and  man  as  the  inspired  observer  within  the  plan  of 
creation,  together  forming  the  trinity  of  Macrocosmos,  Cosmos  and 
Microcosmos. 

The  Hermetic  Christian  gnosis  serves  as  a  model  for  the  mystery  of  creation,  in 
which  human  perception  is  no  longer  arrested  within  the  cycle  of  temporal- 
spatial  functioning  of  the  senses,  with  its  closed  framework  of  birth  —  life  — 
death. 

The  personal  quest  which  I,  as  founder  of  the  Bibliotheca  Philosophica 
Hermetica  have  undertaken,  was  to  study  the  texts  of  the  classical  representatives 
of  scholastic  thought  and  the  possible  influence  of  Hermetic  and  Platonic  texts 
on  these  thinkers;  and  to  study  the  ways  in  which  the  texts  of  these  scholastic 
thinkers  principally  deviate  from  the  human  freedom  of  religion  and 
autonomous  perception  on  the  basis  of  an  authentic  core  of  faith  and  free  will. 
To  me  this  is  where  the  kernel  of  a  classical  betrayal  lies,  in  which  man  was  made 
all  too  dependent  on,  and  subject  to,  the  dogmas  which  religion  and  science 
prescribed  as  axiomatic  for  human  existence. 

The  motivating  force  behind  the  Renaissance  ideal  of  the  Platonic  Academy  of 
Florence  and  its  source  of  inspiration  for  Marsilio  Ficino,  translator  of  the 
complete  works  of  Plato  and  of  the  Corpus  Hermeticum  of  Hermes  Trismegistus, 
was  the  restoration  of  the  classical  world  picture  of  the  way  of  Hermes,  a  way 
which  would  reinstate  the  original  creative  thought,  the  great  Plan  of  God.  Or, 
in  the  words  of  Heraclitus:  'Panta  Rei',  everything  flows.  The  divine  creative 
force  is  the  moving  force  in  the  universe. 

In  the  fifteenth  century  there  was  a  first  philosophical  questioning  of  one  of  the 
corner-stones  of  the  combined  powers  of  church  and  state,  the  defence  of  the 
closed  geocentric  world  picture  as  posited  by  the  Greek  philosopher  Aristotle  and 
established  by  the  astronomer  Ptolemy.  In  this  world  picture  the  earth  was  the 


centre  of  the  surrounding  planets  and  the  centre  of  the  zodiac.  The  hierarchic 
power  of  the  Church  envisaged  itself  as  the  representative  organ  of  a  nine-fold 
hierarchic  system,  with  the  familiar  threefold  subdivision  of  the  three  hierarchies 
per  aspect: 


The  Seraphim  —  the  Cherubim  —  the  Thrones 
The  Dominions  —  the  Powers  —  the  Virtues 
The  Principalities  -  the  Archangels  -  the  Angels 


leading  to  the  highest  heavens,  the  seat  of  the  divine  trinity,  with  Faith  as  the 
absolute  dogma. 

The  Ratio,  based  on  the  five-fold  sensory  perception  of  Aristotle,  and  the  Religio 
of  the  closed  religious  world  picture,  having  sinful  mortal  man,  who  is 
threatened  with  hell  and  damnation,  as  its  base,  in  the  past  two  thousand  years 
produced  a  delusion  which  relies  on  man's  dependence  on  the  order  of  Faith  and 
Reason. 

In  1487  one  of  the  prominent  representatives  of  the  Platonic  Hermetic  Academy 
of  Florence,  Pico  della  Mirandola,  wrote  the  Oratio  de  hominis  dignitate  - 
Oration  on  Human  Dignity  -  which  alludes  to  a  saying  of  Hermes  Trismegistus: 
'Man,  Oh  Asclepius,  is  a  great  miracle'.  Pico  continues  to  say: 

And  finally  the  Supreme  Maker  decreed  that  this  creature,  to  whom  He  could  give  nothing  wholly 
his  own,  should  have  a  share  in  the  particular  endowment  of  every  other  creature.  Taking  man, 
therefore,  this  creature  of  indeterminate  image,  He  set  him  in  the  middle  of  the  world  and  thus 
spoke  to  him:  'We  have  given  you,  O  Adam,  no  visage  proper  to  yourself,  nor  endowment  properly 
your  own,  in  order  that  whatever  place,  whatever  form,  whatever  gifts  you  may,  with 
premeditation,  select,  these  same  you  may  have  and  possess  through  your  own  judgement  and 
decision.  The  nature  of  all  other  creatures  is  defined  and  restricted  within  laws  which  We  have  laid 
down;  you,  by  contrast,  impeded  by  no  such  restrictions,  may,  by  your  own  free  will,  to  whose 
custody  We  have  assigned  you,  trace  for  yourself  the  lineaments  of  your  own  nature.  I  have  placed 
you  at  the  very  center  of  the  world,  so  that  from  that  vantage  point  you  may  with  greater  ease 
glance  round  about  you  on  all  that  the  world  contains.  We  have  made  you  a  creature  neither  of 
heaven  nor  of  earth,  neither  mortal  nor  immortal,  in  order  that  you  may,  as  the  free  and  proud 
shaper  of  your  own  being,  fashion  yourself  in  the  form  you  may  prefer.  It  will  be  in  your  power  to 
descend  to  the  lower,  brutish  forms  of  life;  you  will  be  able,  through  your  own  decision,  to  rise 
again  to  the  superior  orders  whose  life  is  divine.' 


Oh  unsurpassed  generosity  of  God  the  Father,  Oh  wondrous  and  unsurpassable  felicity  of  man,  to 
whom  it  is  granted  to  have  what  he  chooses,  to  be  what  he  wills  to  be!  The  brutes,  from  the 
moment  of  their  birth,  bring  with  them,  as  Lucilius  says,  'from  their  mother's  womb'  all  that  they 
will  ever  possess.  The  highest  spiritual  beings  were,  from  the  very  moment  of  creation,  or  soon 
thereafter,  fixed  in  the  mode  of  being  which  would  be  theirs  through  measureless  eternities.  But 

INTRODUCTION  upon  man,  at  the  moment  of  his  creation,  God  bestowed  seeds  pregnant  with  all  possibilities,  the 

germs  of  every  form  of  life.  Whichever  of  these  a  man  shall  cultivate,  the  same  will  mature  and 
bear  fruit  in  him.  If  vegetative,  he  will  become  a  plant;  if  sensual,  he  will  become  brutish;  if 
rational,  he  will  reveal  himself  a  heavenly  being;  if  intellectual,  he  will  be  an  angel  and  the  son  of 
God.  And  if,  dissatisfied  with  the  lot  of  all  creatures,  he  should  recollect  himself  into  the  center  of 
his  own  unity,  he  will  there  become  one  spirit  with  God,  in  the  solitary  darkness  of  the  Father, 
Who  is  set  above  all  things,  himself  transcend  all  creatures. 

The  Renaissance  ideal,  in  which  man  is  a  paragon,  a  creature  endowed  with 
spirit  and  soul,  has  great  currency  and  is  of  great  significance  for  the  future  of  the 
human  race.  This  ideal  can  present  a  new  direction  and  a  new  beacon  in  the 
history  of  mankind.  The  great  natural  disasters  threatening  the  existence  of  our 
planet,  the  great  human  catastrophes  which  are  caused  by  the  uncontrolled 
aggression  of  wars  and  world  terrorism,  more  than  ever  urge  us  to  learn  to 
fathom  the  meaning  of  human  existence.  Man  must  once  more  pose  the  classical 
question  already  presented  in  the  seventeenth-century  manifestos  of  the 
Rosicrucians,  namely  'why  is  he  called  Man,  even  Microcosm?'. 

When  in  August  1999  I  regained  full  control  of  the  works  from  the  hermetic 
treasure-house  which  is  the  Bibliotheca  Philosophica  Hermetica,  I  decided  to 
develop  this  spiritual  capital  once  more  in  a  modern,  dynamic  way.  This  spiritual 
capital,  in  the  form  of  more  than  600  manuscripts,  400  incunabula,  5,000  books 
printed  before  1800  and  12,000  books  printed  after  1800  in  the  fields  of 
Hermetica,  mysticism,  alchemy  and  Rosicrucians  and  many  related  currents,  was 
listed  under  the  Dutch  Cultural  Heritage  Act  on  25  November  1994. 

The  exhibition  in  the  Biblioteca  Medicea  Laurenziana  in  Florence  in  October 
1999  was  a  first  initiative  in  this  direction.  The  recently  opened  library  complex 
'In  de  Rozenboom',  the  expansion  of  the  scholarly  staff,  and  above  all  a  solid 
financial  independent  position  have  turned  out  to  guarantee  healthy  growth, 
allowing  the  continuation  of  all  professional  disciplines  within  the  library.  At  this 
moment  the  staff  is  engaged  in  some  thirty  international  projects,  which  through 
the  links  with  the  academic  world,  the  major  libraries  and  individual  researchers, 
stimulate  cultural  co-operation  on  an  international  scale. 


In  the  past  forty  years  I  have  explored  the  fixed  limits  of  what  I  should  like  to 
term  'the  closed  thinking,  the  closed  world  picture',  and  I  have  decided  to 
distance  myself  from  it.  The  resolve  to  anchor  the  focal  point  of 'open  thinking', 
the  Hermetica,  as  the  central  corner-stone  of  the  Bibliotheca  Philosophica 
Hermetica,  now  leads  me  to  offer  the  wonderful  works  presented  in  this 

INTRODUCTION  catalogue,  inspite  of  the  personal  fascination  which  I,  a  bibliophile  heart  and 

soul,  entertain  for  them.  In  doing  so,  I  intend  to  give  pride  of  place  to  the 
continuity  of  the  Hermetic  library  founded  by  me. 

The  results  of  the  three  previous  auctions  of  manuscripts  and  printed  works  from 
my  private  collection  in  the  past  year  and  a  half  have  shown  that  their  historical, 
scholarly  and  cultural  significance  within  the  world  of  collectors  and  academic 
research  has  not  been  underestimated.  The  financial  capital  released  by  these 
auctions  will  prove  to  be  a  sound  basis  for  free  and  independent  research  into  the 
foundations  of  the  third  component  within  Western  cultural  history  next  to 
philosophy  and  theology:  the  Hermetic  Christian  gnosis. 

In  addition  to  Religio  and  Ratio,  it  is  now  man's  task  to  pose  himself  the 
fundamental  question  of  the  how  and  the  why  of  the  miracle  that  is  'man'.  And 
so  to  arrive  at  Knowledge,  in  the  sense  of  Gnosis,  of  which  Hermes  Trismegistus 
says  that  the  only  evil  amongst  men  is  the  lack  of  gnosis,  the  lack  of  knowledge 
concerning  God.  That  is  not  new,  and  where  the  ancient  King-Priests  who  were 
central  to  ancient  civilisations,  and  the  circles  of  philosophers  and  initiates 
surrounding  them,  focussed  on  the  principle  'Life',  surely  the  time  has  now 
arrived  for  modern  society  to  present  the  future  world  population  with  a  new 
civilisation,  which  focusses  on  the  reality  of  Body  -  Soul  -  Spirit. 

One  Hermetic  saying  runs  as  follows:  'He  who  knows  himself,  knows  the  All'. 

I  wish  the  future  owners  of  the  works  now  offered  for  auction,  works  mainly 
relating  to  the  scholastic  world  and  tradition,  the  same  satisfaction  which  I  have 
personally  experienced  when  acquiring  these  fine  items  in  the  past. 

Finally  I  should  like  to  express  a  personal  word  of  thanks  to  Paul  Quarrie  and 
Paul  Needham,  who,  as  a  consultant  for  Sotheby's,  has  given  of  his  great 
expertise,  and  has  provided  the  indexes  of  both  provenances  and  texts  forming 
part  of  the  incunabula  of  both  sales,  which  are  appended  to  this  volume. 


Joost  R.  Ritman 

Founder  Bibliotheca  Philosophica  Hermetica 


The  interest  of  collectors  in  the  textual  contents  of  rare  books  has,  overall,  never 
been  greater  than  it  is  today.  We  are  far  removed  from  the  time  when  collectors 
were  charmed  into  purchases  by  the  disingenuous  sentimentalities  of  the  Buxton 
Forman  —  Gosse  —  T.  J.  Wise  school,  where  the  forged  Reading  Sonnets  was 
clothed  in  brightness  by  connecting  it  to  pictures  of  Elizabeth  Browning  pushing 

THE  TEXTS  OFINCUNABLES    a  packet  of  her  verses  into  her  husband's  coat  pocket,  then  fleeing  the  room;  or 

leaving  them  on  the  'domestic  table'  for  him  to  discover;  or,  yet  again,  of  their 
being  'slipped  by  the  poetess  into  her  husband's  hand'.  This  is  not  to  say  that 
factors  of  taste  and  sentiment,  difficult  to  define,  do  not  play  a  role,  and  perhaps 
the  dominant  role,  in  creating  the  enthusiasm  which  ambitious  book  collecting 
depends  on.  But  collectors  as  a  whole,  whether  private  or  institutional  -  and  the 
dealers  and  auction  houses  that  supply  them  —  now  test  their  emotions  more 
rigorously,  and  on  a  more  consciously  intellectual  basis,  than  was  the  case  as 
recently  as  a  quarter-century  ago.  The  change  of  attitude  on  all  sides  is  most 
strikingly  exemplified  in  such  areas  as  history  of  mathematics,  philosophy, 
natural  sciences,  and  engineering.  When  books  in  these  areas  are  on  offer, 
collectors  want  to  know  in  a  reliable  way  what  the  text  is,  what  its  significance, 
its  influences  and  its  own  sources,  its  position  within  the  matrix  of  learning  of  its 
day.  Research  in  these  questions  should  enlarge  constantly  the  perception  of 
what  makes  a  book  collectible;  ideally,  the  high  spots  of  a  Printing  and  the  Mind 
of  Man  should  gather  about  them,  as  our  knowledge  expands,  a  body  of  desirable 
supporting  texts  that  belongs  naturally  in  their  company.  And  of  course,  for  any 
serious  collector,  there  must  come  a  time  when  the  high  spots  of  PMMor  of  any 
other  selected  list  become  irrelevant. 

In  the  past  quarter-century  no  collector  of  early  printing,  probably,  has  placed  a 
stronger  and  more  original  focus  on  the  textual  contents  of  his  acquisitions  than 
J.  R.  Ritman.  This  has  resulted  in  the  formation  of  the  Bibliotheca  Philosophica 
Hermetica  in  Amsterdam,  an  internationally  famous  and  energetic  library  that 
has  become  a  centre  for  research  in  Neoplatonic,  Hermetic  and  Rosicrucian 
thought  of  a  kind  that  never  existed  before.  In  view  of  this  foundation  interest  in 
the  texts  and  textual  significance  of  his  books,  it  seems  more  than  appropriate  to 
attempt  to  provide,  in  an  extensive  index  to  this  catalogue,  an  analytic  guide  to 
the  textual  contents  of  the  approximately  one  hundred  fifty  incunables  offered 


both  here  and  a  year  ago  in  the  Sotheby's  sale  of  6  December  2000  (the  sales 
designated  as  II  and  I  respectively).  Despite  the  masses  of  research  on  fifteenth- 
century  printing  that  have  been  carried  from  the  age  of  Panzer  and  Hain  down 
to  the  present,  no  incunable  catalogue  has  attempted  to  provide  a  full  and 
consistent  record  of  the  textual  contents  of  the  books  it  describes.  The  only 
catalogue  to  set  this  goal  as  one  of  its  briefs  is  still  being  eagerly  awaited:  that  of 
the  Bodleian  Library.  As  we  wait  for  it,  this  smaller  experiment  may  be  allowable 
as  a  discussion  piece,  so  to  speak. 

The  Author-Text  index  attempts  to  identify  both  authors  and  texts  —  two  quite 
different  categories  -  in  as  concise  and  unambiguous  a  way  as  possible,  citing  for 
each  whatever  reference  works  seem  to  provide  the  most  precise,  most  useful, 
and  least  ephemeral  information.  That,  at  least,  is  the  ideal.  The  presence  in 
Ritman  I  and  II  of  such  complex  compilations  as  the  Aldine  Aristotle,  two  of  the 
numerous  incunable  editions  of  the  Opuscula  of  Augustine,  and  the  largest  of  the 
incunable  collections  of  writings  of  Jerome,  provide  interesting  test  cases  in  the 
practical  difficulties  of  defining  contents.  For  example,  it  is  useful  to  draw  a 
distinction  between  making  a  list  of  texts,  and  engaging  in  source  criticism  of  the 
texts.  In  the  Aldine  Aristophanes,  the  preliminaries  include  a  complex  body  of 
supporting  grammatical  -  metrical  material  which  came  down  as  part  of  the 
early  fourteenth-century  Triclinian  recension  of  Aristophanes'  plays.  To  dissect 
too  finely  the  constituents  of  that  body  of  material  would,  in  fact,  disguise  rather 
than  reveal  what  to  Aldus  and  to  contemporary  readers  would  have  been  a  single 
text:  in  essence,  the  common  introductory  matter  of  the  Greek  tradition. 

Here  and  in  many  other  cases  it  is  good  to  pay  closest  attention  to  the  layouts  of 
the  early  editions,  which  give  constant  first-hand  guidance  on  how  the  early 
printers  and  editors  organized  their  texts:  what  they  considered  preliminary  or 
paratextual  matter,  what  they  considered  central  texts;  what  they  called  their 
texts,  how  they  broke  them  into  chapters  and  otherwise  subdivided  them.  Even 
those  experienced  in  early  printing  may  not  realize  how  often  the  'standard'  titles 
we  give  to  incunable  texts  vary  considerably  from  what  the  fifteenth-century 
editions  (and  hence  their  readers)  called  them.  Unless  some  positive  connection 
is  drawn  that  the  text  called  A  (say  in  Hain,  GW,  Goff )  is  identical  to  the  text 
called  B  (in  the  actual  incunables),  there  will  be  inevitable  confusion.  The 


edition  of  Bonaventure's  Tractatus  et  libri  quamplurimi  in  this  sale  includes  the 
treatise  called  De  triplici  via  in  all  the  standard  incunable  sources.  However,  it 
seems  that  no  incunable  edition  gave  this  name  to  the  treatise.  In  the  Tractatus  et 
libri  quamplurimi,  it  is  called  variously  Parvum  bonum,  Regimen  conscientiae,  and 
Fons  vitae:  all  names  with  a  long  manuscript  tradition  behind  them.  A  text  index 
is  the  proper  place  to  make  such  connections  between  standardized  names,  and 
names  in  the  editions  as  they  were  printed. 

A  major  challenge  to  consistent  treatment  is  pseudepigraphic  or  misattributed 
texts.  A  glance  at  the  index  under  Augustinus  and  Hieronymus  shows 
immediately  that,  in  fact,  for  readers  of  the  later  fifteenth  century,  their  pictures 
of  these  great  patristic  authors  were  formed  in  large  part  by  non-authentic 
writings. 

Augustine's  authentic  Soliloquia  was  printed  in  the  fifteenth  century  only  one  or 
two  times;  the  thirteenth-century  compilation  of  the  same  title  circulated  under 
his  name  was  printed  dozens  of  times.  Both  situations  respond  to  the  manuscript 
tradition  of  the  preceding  generations  of  readers.  Recent  incunable  catalogues 
have  often,  in  response  to  modern  textual  studies,  moved  such  disputed  texts 
bodily,  so  to  speak,  from  a  traditional  author  assignment  (according  to  the 
treatment  of  Hain  and  others)  to  a  newly  argued  assignment.  I  am  convinced 
that  this  procedure  creates  more  problems  than  it  solves.  The  attributions  of 
authorship  in  the  editions  themselves  provide,  in  fact,  a  stable  resting  place  for 
the  texts  themselves.  Changing  opinions  on  authorship  can  still  be  incorporated 
in  a  text  index  by  cross-reference  back  to  this  traditional  authorship,  without 
requiring  users  of  catalogues  to  be  constantly  having  to  look  for  texts  under 
authors  that  never  appear  in  the  editions  themselves. 


In  fact,  what  we  needed  eventually  is  a  true  Dictionary  of  Incunable  Authors  and 
Texts,  which  would  define  its  brief  as  the  contents  of  incunables  and  nothing 
more.  Even  the  finest  guides  to  classical,  patristic,  and  medieval  literature  fall 
short  in  their  accounts  of  the  texts  they  include,  as  those  texts  for  the  first  time 
moved  into  print  in  hundreds  of  copies.  The  Biblical  compendium  of 
Marchesinus  known  as  Mammotrectus  was  a  steady  seller  in  the  late  fifteenth 
century,  with  nearly  two  dozen  editions,  and  there  were  more  editions  of  the 
early  sixteenth  century,  yet  Marchesinus  himself  is  ignored  by  virtually  all  the 
guides  to  medieval  writing.  Moreover,  the  editors,  dedicators,  and  contributors 
of  commendatory  material  who  were  directly  involved  in  presenting  these 
fifteenth-century  editions  to  their  public  are  still,  in  large  measure,  invisible  to  us 
in  the  absence  of  such  a  Dictionary.  The  most  comprehensive  and  best- 
documented  guide  to  incunable  editors  continues  to  be  the  notes  of  Gottfried 
Reichhart,  published  1895,  a  work  cited  in  the  Index  in  part  as  a  reminder  of 
how  much  more  remains  to  be  done. 

I  am  grateful  to  Joost  Ritman  for  encouraging  this  small  experiment,  and  to 
Sotheby's  for  giving  it  space.  At  several  places  I  was  given  help  that  went  far 
beyond  what  could  reasonably  be  expected  by  Bettina  Wagner,  of  the  Bavarian 
State  Library;  and  Martin  C.  Davies  and  Jill  Kraye  similarly  gave  expert  advice 
on  several  questions  where  I  felt  very  much  at  sea.  None,  of  course,  is  responsible 
for  the  use  made  of  their  generosity. 


Paul  Needham 

The  Scheide  Library,  Princeton 


IMPORTANT  NOTICES  Tne  proliferation  of  photocopying  machines  makes  it  impossible  for  Sotheby's  to  know 

TO  BUYERS  whether  copies  of  lots  have  been  taken.  We  will  endeavour  to  contact  vendors  about  the 

existence  of  photocopies,  on  request. 

Estimates  in  Euros 

As  a  guide  to  potential  buyers,  estimates  for  this  sale  are  also  shown  in  Euros.  The  estimates 
printed  in  the  catalogue  in  Pounds  Sterling  have  been  converted  at  the  following  rate, 
which  was  current  at  the  time  of  printing.  These  estimates  may  have  been  rounded: 
£1  =€1.6175 

By  the  date  of  the  sale  this  rate  is  likely  to  have  changed,  and  buyers  are  recommended  to 
check  before  bidding. 

During  the  sale  Sotheby's  may  provide  a  screen  to  show  currency  conversions  as  bidding 
progresses.  This  is  intended  for  guidance  only  and  all  bidding  will  be  in  Pounds  Sterling. 
Sotheby's  is  not  responsible  for  any  error  or  omissions  in  the  operation  of  the  currency 
converter. 

Payment  for  purchases  is  due  in  Pounds  Sterling,  however  the  equivalent  amount  in  any 
other  currency  will  be  accepted  at  the  rate  prevailing  on  the  day  that  payment  is  received  in 
cleared  funds. 

Settlement  is  made  to  vendors  in  the  currency  in  which  the  sale  is  conducted,  or  in 
another  currency  on  request  at  the  rate  prevailing  on  the  day  that  payment  is  made  by 
Sotheby's. 


A  SECOND  SELECTION 

OF  PRINTED  BOOKS 

MOSTLY  FROM  THE 

FIFTEENTH  CENTURY 

THE  PROPERTY  OF 
MR  J.  R.  RITMAN 

SOLD  FOR  THE 

BENEFIT  OF  THE 

BIBLIOTHECA 

PHILOSOPHICA 

HERMETICA, 

AMSTERDAM 


WEDNESDAY  5  DECEMBER  2001 
10.30AM 

LOTS  1-122 


Notice 

All  lots  are  offered  subject  to  the  Sotheby's  Conditions  of  Business  and  to  reserves. 
For  all  lots  marked  with  a  #,  t,  t,  a,  or  Q  please  refer  to  the  VAT  Information  pages 
at  the  back  of  the  catalogue. 


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1  actual  size 


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FIFTEENTH  CENTURY 

1  Abraham  ibn  Ezra.  De  nativitatibus  (Henricus  Bate:  Magistralis  compositio  astrolabii; 
Descriptio  instrumenti  pro  equatione  planetarum).  Venice:  Erhard  Ratdolt,  24  December 
1485 

FIRST  EDITION,  Chancery  4°  (186  x  147mm.),  30  leaves,  38  lines,  Gothic  letter,  6-  and 
13-line  white-on-black  woodcut  initials,  full-page  woodcut  of  a  sphere  on  al  verso,  14 
woodcut  diagrams  in  text,  modern  green  morocco  by  Gozzi,  gilt  dentelle  border,  red 
morocco  gilt  doublures,  slipcase,  a  few  early  manuscript  notes  in  margins,  a5  slightly  soiled 
and  with  small  repairs  in  margin,  slight  worming  in  some  inner  margins,  occasional  light 
spotting  and  staining 

FIRST  EDITION.  Abraham  ben  Ezra  (c.  1090-c.  1 164)  poet,  Biblical  commentator 
astronomer,  and  grammarian,  wrote  some  fifty  works  on  astrology,  only  two  of  which 
were  printed  in  the  fifteenth  century.  In  addition  he  also  wrote  treatises  on  numbers,  the 
calendar  and  the  astrolabe.  He  introduced  the  decimal  form  of  integers  in  Europe.  The 
present  translation  may  be  by  Henricus  Bate  (1246-c.  1310),  author  of  the  following 
tract,  or  by  Petrus  de  Abano.  According  to  Levy  the  astrological  works  were  translated 
into  French  by  Hagin  a  jew  employed  by  Henry  Bate  at  Malines,  and  Bates  made  the 
Latin  version  from  this.  Bate  was  a  master  of  arts  from  Paris  who  became  a  learned 
Hebrew  scholar  and  translated  other  works  by  Abraham  ben  Ezra.  His  own  Compositio 
astrolabii,  dedicated  to  William  of  Moerbeke,  contains  his  colophon  from  Malines,  1 1 
October  1274. 

The  colophon  date  (Impressum...  Anno...  M.cccc.lxxxv.  nona  kalendas  lanuarii)  has  been 
interpreted  by  GW  and  other  incunable  bibliographies  as  meaning  24  December  1484, 
rather  than  1485. 

Provenance:  Agostino  Chameroto,  with  inscription  dated  2  October  16[28?];  Torre  del 
Palasciano,  with  gilt  ex-libris  on  morocco  doublures 

References:  HC  *21;  GW  113;  BMC  v  291;  Goff  A7;  Redgrave  46;  Klebs  4.1;  Stillwell 
(Awakening)  4;  Essling  319;  Sander  3;  R.  Levy,  The  Astrological  Works  of  Abraham  ben 
Ezra,  1927 

£15,000-20,000 
€24,300-32,300 


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ESOPVS 


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2  Aesop.  Vita  after  Rinucius;  Fabulae  lib.  I-IV,  prose  version  after  Romulus  [German] 
(Fabulae  extravagantes;  Fabulae  novae  after  Rinucius;  Fabulae  Aviani;  Fabulae  collectae 
[German];  translated  by  Heinrich  Steinhowel).  [Basel:  Michael Furter,  c.  1500] 

Chancery  2°  (263  x  189mm.),  1 14  (of  1 16)  leaves,  44  lines,  Gothic  letter,  7-line 
woodcut  white-on-black  initials,  full-page  woodcut  of  Aesop  on  al  verso,  192  woodcuts 
in  the  text,  3-line  initials  and  paragraph-marks  supplied  in  red  or  blue,  modern  blind- 
stamped  calf-backed  boards,  one  clasp  and  catch,  cloth  box,  lacking  b4  (supplied  in 
facsimile)  and  final  blank  leaf,  20  leaves  supplied  from  a  shorter  copy,  short  tears  in  k2  and  18 
repaired  with  minimal  loss  at  edge  of  text,  two  woodcuts  printed  upside-down  (e8  verso  and  i7 
recto) 

ONE  OF  ONLY  FIVE  RECORDED  COPIES,  only  two  of  which  are  complete.  The  woodcuts  are 
copied  from  those  used  in  Johannes  Zainer's  Ulm  edition  of  c.  1476-1477  (Goff  Al  16). 
This  edition  contains  Steinhowel's  German  translations  of  Rinucius's  Latin  version  of  the 
life  of  Aesop,  Romulus  s  prose  version  of  the  fables,  and  a  group  of  fables  from  other 
collections.  These  translations  were  first  printed  together  with  the  Latin  text  in  Johann 
Zainer's  Ulm  edition  of  c.  1476-1477.  They  were  first  printed  separately  by  Giinther 
Zainer  at  Augsburg,  c.  1477-1478  (Goff  Al  19). 

References:  H  *334;  GW  363;  Goff  Al  22;  Schreiber  3033;  Fairfax  Murray  451 

£30,000-40,000 
€48,500-64,500 


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3  Alarms  de  Insulis.  Doctrinale  altum  seu  liber  parabolum  (cum  commento).  Cologne: 
Heinrich  Quentell,  1497 

Chancery  4°  (187  x  136mm.),  26  leaves,  45  lines  and  headline,  Gothic  letter,  6-line 
initial  space,  nineteenth-century  boards,  some  early  manuscript  notes  in  margins,  some 
browning,  small  repair  in  fore-margin  ofAAl,  library  stamp  onAAl 

Alain  de  Lille  (c.  1 1 14-1202),  poet,  preacher,  theologian  and  eclectic  philosopher,  taught 
for  some  time  in  Paris  and  then  entered  the  monastery  of  Citeaux  sometime  after  the 
Third  Council  of  the  Lateran  in  1 179.  He  became  very  famous  during  his  lifetime  as  a 
teacher  and  scholar,  and  influence  through  his  Anticlaudianus  on  Dante  has  been 
suggested. 

Some  twenty  editions  of  the  Doctrinale,  one  of  the  best  known  grammar  books  of  the 
Medieval  and  early  modern  period,  written,  like  other  school  books  of  the  period,  in  verse 
as  a  form  of  mnemonic  were  printed  in  the  fifteenth  century,  the  earliest  of  which, 
without  commentary,  was  produced  at  Paris  by  Pierre  Levet,  c.  1485-90  (Goff  A170);  the 
anonymous  commentary  was  first  printed  in  Heinrich  Quentell's  edition  of  c.  1490  (Goff 
A 172).  There  were  also  several  editions  which  contain  Latin  and  German  versions  of  the 
text. 

Provenance:  Fundatio  Baldaufica,  with  bookplate 
References:  HR  382;  GW  503;  Goff  Al 74 

£5,000-6,000 
€8,100-9,700 


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4  Albertus  Magnus,  Saint.  Compendium  theologicae  veritatis.  Venice:  Gregorius 
Dalmatinus  and  Jacobus  Britannicus,  1  April  1483 

Chancery  4°  (199  x  142mm.),  97  leaves  (of  98,  without  initial  blank  leaf),  double 
column,  46  lines,  Gothic  letter,  first  heading  printed  in  red,  4-line  initials  supplied  in  red 
and  blue,  2-line  initials  and  paragraph-marks  supplied  in  red,  nineteenth-century  calf, 
several  small  wormholes  in  text  of  first  few  leaves,  a  few  others  in  margins,  small  burnhole  in 
text  ofm3,  light  stain  on  ml 

The  only  book  known  to  have  been  printed  by  this  partnership.  The  name  of  Gregorius 
Dalmatinus  is  known  in  only  one  other  book,  a  Roman  breviary  printed  on  1  February 
1483,  where  it  appears  together  with  that  of  Nicolaus  Jenson  and  'socios  omnes  Venetiis'. 

Provenance:  Augustinian  Hermits,  Order  of  William  (Blancs  Manteaux),  Paris,  with  early 
inscription  on  a2  recto;  Dr  Victor  von  Klemperer,  with  bookplate  (sale  in  our  rooms,  27 
June  1991,  lot  376) 

References:  HC  *440;  GW  605;  BMC  v  362;  Goff  A236 

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5  Albertus  Magnus,  Saint.  Philosophia  pauperum  (Aegidius  Columna:  De  regimine 
principium;  Albertus  Magnus:  De  virtute  intellectiva).  Brescia:  Baptista  Farfengus,  13  June 
1493 

Chancery  4°  (208  x  154mm.),  50  leaves,  40  lines  and  headline,  Roman  letter,  4-,  5-  and 
1 1-line  white-on-black  woodcut  initials,  full-page  woodcut  on  al  recto,  another  of  a 
phrenological  head  on  verso,  two  woodcut  diagrams  of  the  spheres  and  the  winds  in  text, 
sixteenth-century  limp  vellum,  two  pairs  of  ties,  woodcut  on  al  recto  rubbed  with  slight 
loss,  al  slightly  frayed  and  lightly  stained,  occasional  other  light  staining 

Earlier  editions  of  this  work  are:  an  undated  edition  printed  anonymously  at  Toulouse  for 
Johann  Solidi  (GW  708,  Klebs  23.3);  one  printed  at  Barcelona  by  Posa  in  1482  (GW 
709;  Klebs  23.1);  a  third,  undated,  printed  anonymously  at  Lerida  in  1485;  and  a  fourth, 
also  from  the  press  of  Farfengus,  dated  10  September  1490  (GW  711). 

The  full-page  woodcut  on  al  recto,  not  present  in  the  earlier  Farfengus  edition,  represents 
a  female  figure  with  outstretched  arms  accompanied  by  a  terrestrial  globe,  with  a  human 
head  with  numerals,  a  balance,  a  pair  of  compasses  above,  and  a  vase,  rule  and  angle 
measure  below. 

Provenance:  Jesuit  College,  Cordoba,  with  inscription  and  stamp 

References:  H  *505;  GW  712;  BMC  vii  985;  Goff  A297;  Sander  192;  IGI  221;  Klebs  23.5 

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6  Albertus  Magnus  (pseudo-)  Mariale.  [Strassburg:  Johannes  Mentelin,  not  after  1473],  66 
leaves,  double  column,  61  lines,  Gothic  letter,  2-,  3-,  4-,  9-  and  12-line  initials 

[Richardus  de  Sancto  Laurentio]  De  laudibus  Mariae.  [Strassburg:  Johannes  Mentelin,  not 
after  1473],  213  leaves  (of  215,  without  2  final  blank  leaves),  double  column,  61  lines, 
Gothic  letter,  2-,  3-,  4-,  6-  and  9-line  initials 

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and  12-line  initials  supplied  in  red  and  blue  interlock  with  reserved-white  leafy 
decoration  and  red  and  dark  brown  penwork,  smaller  initials  alternately  in  red  and  blue, 
initial-strokes,  paragraph-marks  and  continuous  foliation  through  both  works  in  red),  late 
eighteenth-century  mottled  calf,  spine  gilt  in  compartments,  rubrication  dates  of  1473  on 
fol.  1/2  verso  of  first  work  and  on  7/8  of  the  second,  5-page  contemporary  manuscript 
index  bound  at  the  end  of  the  first  work,  light  foxing  in  first  few  leaves  of  first  work,  a  few 
tears  on  both  covers  of  binding,  joints  worn,  spine  chipped  at  head  and  foot 

FIRST  EDITIONS.  THE  'DOCUMENTARY'  COPY,  PROVIDING  A  TERMINAL  DATE  FOR  BOTH 
WORKS.  These  two  editions  were  issued  together  and  most  surviving  copies  are  so  bound 
as  in  the  present  volume. 

The  first  work,  Mariale,  is  attributed  to  Albertus  Magnus  in  this  edition,  as  in  most 
manuscripts,  and  has  only  recently  been  recognised  as  not  authentic.  It  belongs  to  the 
mid-thirteenth  century  and  is  perhaps  of  Austrian  origin.  Richardus  de  Sancto  Laurentio's 
treatise  (see  below)  was  one  of  its  sources  (see  A.  Fries,  Die  unter  dem  Namen  des  Albertus 
Magnus  berlieferten  Mariologischen  Schriften,  1954,  5  sqq.). 

The  second  work,  De  laudibus  Mariae,  is  the  work  of  the  Paris  theologian  Richardus  de 
Sancto  Laurentio  (fl.  1239-1245;  see  P.  Glorieux,  Repertoire  des  maitres  en  theologie  de 
Paris,  1933,  i  330-331).  In  his  second  prologue  Richardus  states  that  he  was  urged  to 
write  the  work  by  many  Cistercians,  both  monks  and  nuns;  and  that  he  has  omitted  his 
name  from  a  sense  of  unworthiness. 

The  present  copy  bears  a  rubrication  date  of  1473  on  1/2  verso  of  the  first  work;  on  7/8 
verso  of  the  second,  in  the  same  hand,  is  the  rubricator's  inscriptions  1.4.7.3.  Petro  a 
fryenstein  ist  Liber  iste,  with  identification  of  him,  in  a  second  but  contemporary  hand,  as 
canon  of  St  Stephen's,  Strassburg.  Two  other  copies  of  the  two  works  bound  together,  in 
Paris  and  Munich,  have  rubrication  or  purchase  dates  of  1474.  Ulrich  Zel  printed  an 
edition  of  the  Mariale  (Goff  A271),  based  on  an  independent  manuscript,  which  is  also 
not  after  1473  on  the  basis  of  a  purchase  inscription  in  the  Upsala  copy. 

In  quire  8  of  De  laudibus  Mariae  fos.  4  and  5,  the  centre  leaves,  are  both  on  stubs.  A 
manuscript  index  to  De  laudibus  Mariae  is  bound  between  the  two  works,  rubricated  and 
foliated  uniformly  with  them. 

Provenance:  Petrus  a  Fryenstein,  canon  of  Strassburg,  with  inscription  dated  1473;  'et 
emit  magister  nicolaus  a  domino  germano  apothecario  in  argentina',  inscription  below 
the  previous  one  on  7/8  verso  of  second  work;  Baer  Catalogue  745  no.  418;  George 
Abrams,  with  bookplate  (sale  in  our  rooms,  16  November  1989,  lot  3) 

References:  Mariale:  HC  *46 1 ;  GW  680;  BMC  i  59;  Goff  A272;  De  laudibus  Mariae:  H 
*467;  GW  616;  BMC  i  59;  Goff  A247 

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7  Albertus  Magnus  (pseudo-)  Mariale.  [Basel:  Michael  Wenssler,  before  1474] 

Chancery  2°  (312  x  221mm.),  190  leaves,  35  lines,  Gothic  letter,  two  6-line  initials 
supplied  in  red  or  blue,  2-,  3-line  initials  in  red  or  blue,  initial-strokes  and  paragraph- 
marks  in  red,  contemporary  South  German  pink  deerskin  over  wooden  boards,  vellum 
label  lettered  with  title  on  upper  cover,  modern  cloth  box,  some  worming  in  text  of  first 
and  last  few  leaves,  a  few  wormholes  in  fore-margins  throughout,  first  3  leaves  lightly  browned, 
both  covers  wormed  and  rubbed,  lacking  two  clasps  and  metal  corner-  and  centre-pieces  on 
both  covers 

Second  edition.  A  fine,  unusually  tall  copy  bound  in  contemporary  pink  deerskin. 
Although  GW,  Polain  and  IGI  all  date  the  edition  as  not  after  1475,  BMC  records  a 
rubricator's  date  of  1474  in  the  Buxheim  copy. 

Provenance:  Benedictines  of  Weingarten,  with  inscription  dated  1630  on  first  leaf 
References:  HC  *462;  GW  679;  BMC  iii  721;  Goff  A273 

£30,000-40,000 
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VITA  SANCTI  AMEROSII  MEDICLA 
NENSIS  EPISCC-PI  SECVNDVM  FAV 
LINVM  EPISCOPVM  NOLANVM  AD 

BEATvivi  AVGVSTINVM  EPISCO 

PVM. 

HO  rtaris  uenerabilis  pater  auguftine 
ut  ficut  bead  uiri  athanafms  epiilo- 
pu*  &  hieronymus  prefbiter  fhlo,p 
iecutifuntuitam  fandorum  pauli  & 
aiitonii  in  heremo  pcfitorum  ficut  eti 
am  martini  uenerabilis  ep.lcopi  turonenlis  ecclefix  fe 
uerus  Icruus  dei  ferinoe  cotexuit  ita  etia  beat/  ambro 
Ci  epilcopi !  mcdiolancnllfs  ecclefix  ego  meoyffequar 
ftllo.  Sed  ego  ut  mentis  tantorum  uirorum  qui  muri 
ecclefiaruin  iunt  6(  eloquently  fontes  ita  en'am  fermo 
ne  me  imparem  now  .  Tamen  quia  abfurdu  effe  cpi 
nor  quod  prxcipis  cieclinare  ea  quar  a  probatiffimis 
uiris  q  illi  ante  me  adfh'terut  &  maxime  a  lor  ore  ipfi 
us  uenerabili  Marcelliaa  didia  uel  qux  ipfe  uidi  uel 
cjiix  ab  his^agnoui  qui  ilium  in  diticrfis  prouKiis  pcft 
obitum  ipims  fe  uidifTe  narrarunt  uel  qua?  adillu  fcri 
pta  funt  cum  adhuc  obiifTe  nefa'retur  adiutus  oraticni 
bus  tuis  &  meritis  tanti  uiri  licet  inculto  fermonc  bre 
niter  rtridirnq^  defcribam  ut  ledoris  animu  &  fi  fcr 
rno  offenderit  tamen  breuitas  ad  legendum  protiocet 


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8  Ambrosius,  Saint,  Archbishop  of  Milan.  De  officiis  (Paulinus  Mediolanensis:  Vita 
Ambrosii;  Ambrose  (pseudo-):  Vita  S.  Agnetis;  Passio  SS.  Vitalis  et  Agricolae;  Passio  SS. 
Protasii  et  Gervasii  et  de  inventione  corporum).  Milan:  Christophorus  Valdarfer,  7 January 
1474 

Median  4°  (225  x  152mm.),  128  leaves,  28  lines,  Roman  letter,  3-  and  5-line  initials 
supplied  in  red  (the  first  in  blue),  eighteenth-century  English  blue  morocco  gilt,  dentelle 
border,  spine  gilt  in  compartments,  gilt  edges,  early  manuscript  foliation,  first  leaf 
browned,  dampstainingin  first  and  last  few  leaves,  manuscript  note  in  margin  of fol.  107 
verso  erased,  spine  slightly  faded,  joints  rubbed 

THE  FIRST  BOOK  PRINTED  BY  VALDARFER  IN  MILAN.  The  supplementary  texts  are  all  here 
printed  for  the  first  time.  The  lives  of  the  Roman  martyr  St  Agnes  and  of  the  master-slave 
martyrs  Vitalis  and  Agricola  are  considered  pseudo-Ambrose.  The  authenticity  the  third 
work,  the  life  of  the  proto-martyrs  of  Milan  Gervase  and  Protase,  is  also  considered 
doubtful.  The  fourth  text  concerns  the  finding  of  the  remains  of  Gervase  and  Protase  by 
Ambrose  and  their  interment  under  the  altar  of  his  basilica  in  Milan. 

Valdarfer  printed  first  at  Venice  between  1470  and  1471,  and  then  migrated  to  Milan 
where  his  name  is  recorded  on  6  August  1473.  His  edition  of  Ambrose  is  his  first  dated 
book  there.  It  is  also  his  only  use  of  type  2:107R,  which  was  used  also  by  Philippus  de 
Lavagnia  (3:108R).  Valdarfer  worked  continuously  in  Milan  until  1478  and  then  only 
intermittently  until  1488. 

Provenance:  George  Dunn  (August  1900);  Arthur  Kay,  with  bookplate 
References:  H  *910;  GW  161 1;  BMC  vi  725;  GofFA560;  IGI  431 

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conceditur colloqui.Certe &  uobis  proficie  jut  aduertatis 
non  fragilitate  quada  uos  hoc  officiu  fed  iudicio  detulitfi 
ncc  mifencordia  mortis  impulfos  fed  uirtutn  honorific^ 
tia prouocacos.Anima  eni bencdicta  omms  fimplex  taca 
autcm  fimplicitas  ut  conuerfus  in  pueru  fimpliciratc  illiijs 
xtacis  innoxiae  perfed^  uirtutis effigie  .SCq^oda  innoc£ 
riumorufpeculordticcret.Intrauicigic  iregna  cxlorum 
qiibnia  credidi't  dci  uerbo  quqnia  fi'cut  puer  artc  reppulit 
adulandi  inmrias  dolorc clemcter  abforbuit  qua  indemc  . 
tius  umdicauft  querelae  qua  dolo  proptipf  .tatiiTa^lioi  fart 
lis.difficihs  ambicioni  fandlus  pudori.ut  frequenter  in  ed 
fugflua  magis  uerecundia  prsedicares.q;  necefTann  qusere 
res  fed  nunqua  fugflua  fundamcta  uircutis.Pudor  eni  no 
reuocat:fed  comendat  officiu.Itac^  uekit  quada  uirgfnali 
uerecundia  fuffifusora  cu  uultu  affe&u  proderet:  fi  forte 
aliquafubito  ueniensoffendinetpartem.uelut  depreflus 
&  quafi  dimerfus  in  terra  licet  inipfonequa^  diffimilis 
cctu  uiroru:rarus  attollef  osreleuare  oculos:referre  fermo 
hc.Qyod  pudico  quoda  metis  pudore  faciebat  cfiquo  ca 
ftimonia  quo^  corporis  congruebat:Ecenim  mtemerata 
^acn  baptifmatis  dona  feruauit:  mundo  corpore  purfor 
corde  non  minus  adukeri  fermois  opprpbriu  ^  <terporis 
perhorrefcensmon  mmore  ratus  ptidiciciae  reuetentia  dc 
ferendam  integritate  uerboru:^  corpons  caftitate  :deni^p 
in  tantO  caftimonia  dilexitrut  nee  tixorc  expeteret  licet  m 
eo  no  folii  caftitatis  appetctia  fuerit:fed  ct  pjetatis  gratia. 
Miro  autcmodo:5^  coniiismdifrimuiabat:  8C  iadlantiam 
declmabac  tanta$  erat  dilfimulatfo  ut  nobis  quoc^  urgen 
tibus  differre  magis  cofortium  ^  refugere  ufderetur.  Hoc 
unuita<$fuir  quod  nee  fratribus  ce-deret  no  aliqna  ciicla 
tionis  hefitantia:fed  uirtutis  uerecundia. Quis  igitur  non 
miretur  uiru  inter  fratrcs  duos.alteram  uirginem  alterum 
Tacerdot3:5C  altejfnediu.magnanimitate  rro  imparc  iw  iter 
di?o  maxia  muncra  praeftitifle  m  alten?  muneris  cafh'tatc  - 
alterius  fancltratem  reforet  non  profeflionis  uinculotfed 
uirtutis  officio. Ergo  fi  libido  atqj  iracundia^rdiquornm 


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9  Ambrosius,  Saint,  Archbishop  of  Milan.  De  officiis  (Paulinus  Mediolanensis:  Vita 

Ambrosii;  Ambrose  (pseudo-):  Vita  S.  Agnetis  -  Passio  SS.  Vitalis  et  Agricolae  -  Passio  SS. 
Protasii  et  Gervasii  et  de  inventione  corporum;  Ambrose:  De  obitu  S.  Satyri  -  De 
resurrectione  et  cruce  domini  -  De  bono  mortis).  Milan:  Uldericus  Scinzenzeler for 
Philippus  de  Lavagnia,  17  January  1488 

Chancery  4°  (208  x  149mm.),  140  leaves,  36  lines,  Roman  letter,  4-,  5-  and  8-line 
initials,  some  with  printed  guides,  eighteenth-century  vellum-backed  'carta  rustica',  early 
manuscript  notes  in  some  margins,  later  Italian  manuscript  list  of  contents  on  front 
flyleaf,  small  wormhole  in  text  of  last  few  leaves,  light  dampstain  in  lower  margin  of  last  few 
leaves,  other  light  stains 

This  edition  contains  the  first  editions  of  the  three  subsidiary  texts  which  form  the  second 
part:  De  obitu  Satyri  sancti,  a  treatise  on  the  death  of  Ambrose's  elder  brother;  De 
resurrectione  et  cruce  Domini;  and  De  bono  mortis.  The  first  part  of  the  text  is  reprinted 
from  Valdarfer's  1474  Milan  edition  (see  lot  8). 

Provenance.  Bibliotheca  Trivulziana,  with  duplicate  stamp 

References:  HC  91 1  (incl.  HC  *908);  GW  1612;  BMC  vi  762;  IGI  432;  Goff  A561 

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10  actual  size 


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10  Angelus,  Johannes.  Astrolabium.  Augsburg:  Erhard  Ratdolt,  27  November  [or  6  October] 
1488 

FIRST  EDITION,  Median  4°  (216  x  161mm.),  175  leaves  (of  176,  without  final  blank  leaf), 
40  lines,  Gothic  letter,  7-  and  13-line  white-on-black  woodcut  initials,  numerous 
woodcuts  of  horoscopes,  figures  of  constellations  and  planets  in  the  text,  tables,  a  few  of 
the  woodcuts  and  initials  coloured  by  hand,  CONTEMPORARY  SOUTH  GERMAN  BINDING, 
blind-stamped  goatskin  over  wooden  boards,  outer  border  composed  of  a  floral  roll,  inner 
frame  enclosing  a  central  panel  of  vertical  rolls  of  Renaissance  ornament,  spine  with  3 
raised  bands,  early  manuscript  notes  with  dates  of  astrological  movements  on  verso  of 
final  flyleaf,  title  lightly  soiled  with  a  small  piece  torn  from  fore-margin,  tear  in  text  ofr4 
repaired  with  minimal  loss,  small  repair  in  lower  margin  of  same  leaf,  some  spotting  in 
margins,  first  gathering  slightly  wormed  in  lower  margin,  spine  repaired  at  head  and  foot, 
lacking  four  clasps,  two  catches  and  metal  corner-  and  centre-pieces  from  each  cover 

FIRST  EDITION  OF  ONE  OF  THE  MOST  PROFUSELY  ILLUSTRATED  WORKS  ON  ASTROLOGY. 
Johannes  Angelus  (or  Johann  Engel,  d.  1 5 1 2),  a  native  of  Aich  or  Aichach,  also  produced 
a  series  of  broadside  almanacs  and  a  series  of  practica  (see  GW  1892  sqq.).  He  also  edited 
for  Ratdolt's  Augsburg  press  the  first  editions  of  Albusumar,  De  magnis  conjunctionibus 
(with  a  completion  date  of  31  March  1489,  Goff  A360),  Petrus  de  Alliaco,  Concordantiae 
astronomicae  (2  January  1490,  Goff  A471),  and  Regiomontanus,  Tabulae  directionum  et 
profectionum  (also  2  January  1490,  Goff  Rl  12). 

The  woodcuts  include  large  sets  of  the  seven  planets  in  chariots  and  the  twelve  signs  of 
the  zodiac,  both  of  which  were  first  used  in  Ratdolt's  1482  Venice  edition  of  Hyginus, 
Poeticon  astronomicon  (see  lot  61).  They  were  then  reused  by  Ratdolt  for  his  editions  of 
Albumusar,  Intro ductorium  in  astronomiam,  7  February  1489,  and  De  magnis 
conjunctionibus  (see  above).  The  first  section,  about  the  influence  of  the  zodiac  signs, 
contains  numerous  small  woodcuts  of  people,  animals  and  occupations. 

Provenance:  Samuel  V.  Hoffman  Collection  (sale  Christie's,  12  November  1975,  lot  2); 
British  Rail  Pension  Fund  (sale  in  our  rooms,  28  September  1988,  lot  154) 

References:  H  *1 100;  GW  1900;  BMC  ii  382;  Goff  A71 1;  BSB-Ink  E-63;  Klebs  375.1; 
Zinner  320;  Houzeau-Lancaster  3252;  Stillwell  (Awakening)  51;  Fairfax  Murray  39; 
Schreiber  3316 

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11  Anselmus,  Saint,  Archbishop  of  Canterbury.  Opuscula.  [Basel:  Johann  Amerbach,  not  after 
1497] 

Chancery  4°  (180  x  135mm.),  208  leaves,  double  column,  49  lines  and  headline,  Gothic 
letter,  3-  and  9-line  initial  spaces  with  printed  guides,  vellum,  several  early  notes  of 
ownership  on  Al  recto  deleted,  occasional  other  early  notes  in  margins,  some  headlines 
shaved,  slight  worming  in  some  lower  margins,  slight  paper  damage  in  margin  ofAl 

Amerbach  gave  four  copies  of  this  book  to  the  Basel  Charterhouse  in  1497. 

The  first  collected  edition  of  St  Anselm's  works  was  printed  in  1491  at  Nuremberg  by 
Caspar  Hochfeder. 

Provenance:  Library  of  San  Jeronimo,  Forli,  note  of  ownership  dated  1507  on  Al  verso 
References:  HC  *1 136;  GW  2033;  BMC  iii  759;  Goff  A761 

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12  Apuleius  Madaurensis,  Lucius.  Asinus  aureus  (commentary  by  Philippus  Beroaldus; 
additions  by  Beroaldus  and  Coelius  Calcagninus).  Bologna:  Benedictus  Hectoris,  1  August 
1500 

Chancery  2°  (295  x  21 1mm.),  286  leaves,  52  lines  of  commentary  and  headline,  Roman 
and  Greek  letter,  4-,  5-  and  7-line  initial  spaces  with  printed  guide-letters,  printer's 
woodcut  device  at  the  end,  early  nineteenth-century  green  roan,  gilt  border  of  acanthus 
leaves  round  sides,  flat  spine  tooled  in  compartments,  tool  of  flowers  and  a  bird  in  the 
compartments,  a  few  small  wormholes  in  margins  of  first  and  last  few  leaves,  occasional  light 
spotting,  corners  and  head  and  foot  of  spine  slightly  rubbed 

Apuleius's  Metamorphoses,  or  Golden  Ass,  is  the  only  Latin  novel  to  survive  in  its  complete 
form.  The  epic  story  tells  of  Lucius,  who  through  his  eagerness  to  discover  the  secrets  of 
witchcraft  is  transformed  into  an  ass  and  undergoes  a  series  of  picaresque  adventures 
before  being  retransformed  through  the  agency  of  the  goddess  Isis.  It  also  includes  the  tale 
of  Cupid  and  Psyche  and  accounts  of  the  mystic  rites  of  Isis  and  Osiris. 

The  first  edition  of  this  work,  printed  by  Sweynheym  and  Pannartz  at  Rome  in  1469 
(Goff  A934),  was  edited  by  Johannes  Andreae  Bussi,  bishop  of  Aleria,  and  included  two 
further  important  texts  of  Neoplatonism:  the  Epitoma  of  Alcinous  and  the  Asclepius  of 
Hermes  Trismegistus.  The  present  edition  is  the  first  to  contain  the  commentary  of 
Filippo  Beroaldo. 

Some  copies  of  this  work  include  a  16-leaf 'Tabula  vocabulorum  et  historiarum'  which, 
according  to  BMC,  was  printed  later  than  the  body  of  the  text.  This  table  is  not  present 
here. 

Provenance:  library  stamps  on  the  title-page  of  the  Annunciation  accompanied  by  the 
letters  NE(?),  probably  of  a  convent  of  the  Annunziata;  letter  in  French,  dated  24  June 
1847,  from  Ferdinand  Barros  presenting  the  book  to  an  unnamed  correspondent,  loosely 
inserted;  Du  Bourg  de  Bozas,  with  morocco  book-label 

References:  HC  "1319;  GW  2305;  BMC  vi  845;  Goff  A938 

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13  Aristotle.  Opera  [Greek].  Venice:  Aldus Manutius,  1495-98 

5  volumes  bound  in  6,  Super-Chancery  2°  (312  x  212mm.),  1850  leaves,  30  lines  and 
headline,  Greek  letter,  woodcut  initials  and  headpieces,  the  final  line  of  text  on  kklO 
verso  (volume  3)  pasted  in,  English  late  eighteenth-century  red  straight-grained  morocco 
gilt,  three-line  border  round  sides,  the  John  Rylands  monogram  added  to  upper  cover, 
spines  gilt  in  compartments,  gilt  edges,  several  edges  uncut,  leafK6  (volume  2)  supplied 
from  a  shorter  copy,  the  inner  forme  DDD  666  1  verso  andDDD  666  8  recto  (volume  5)  was 
not  printed,  fore-margin  ofK5  (volume  2)  repaired,  small  wormhole  in  fore-margin  from  the 
beginning  of  volume  1  to  E8  repaired,  small  wormhole  in  the  lower  margin  of4H4  (volume 
6)  to  the  end  repaired  with  minimal  loss  to  the  signature  or  last  line  of  text  on  a  few  leaves,  the 
final  signature  of  volume  3  misbound  between  the  fourth  and  fifth  signatures  of  volume  2 

When  Chaucer's  clerke  of  Oxenford  spoke  of  the  books  at  his  bed,  he  included  Aristotle: 

For  hym  was  levere  have  at  his  beddes  heed 

Twenty  bookes,  clad  in  blak  or  reed, 

Of  Aristotle  and  his  philosophic, 

Than  robes  riche,  or  fithele,  or  gay  sautrie.  (Prologue  293-296) 

whose  position  in  the  Latin  Middle  Ages,  albeit  in  a  tradition  removed  from  the  original 
Greek  text,  was  from  one  end  of  Europe  to  the  other,  impregnable.  He  was  ille 
philosophus. 

The  fame  of  Aldus  rests  on  the  books  he  printed  in  Greek.  Others  had  printed  a  few 
books  in  Greek,  one  very  substantial,  the  1488  Homer  (see  lot  60),  but  Aldus's  grandest 
project  was,  without  doubt,  the  printing  of  the  works  of  Aristotle  in  the  original  Greek,  to 
which  were  added  works  by  Theophrastus  (not  the  famous  Charakteres),  Galen,  Porphyry, 
Philo  Judaeus  and  others,  but  from  which  were  omitted  the  Poetics  &  Rhetoric.  This 
undertaking,  huge  in  terms  of  both  extent  of  text  and  the  technicalities  of  printing,  was 
spread  over  several  years.  It  was  a  land-mark  in  humanist  scholarship,  which  held  its 
position  until  Immanuel  Bekker's  edition  of  Aristotle  (1831).  Erasmus  in  the  preface  to 
Bebelius'  edition  of  Aristotle  (Allen  Op.  Epist.  ix  133-  140  11.  248-)  wrote  in  1531  to 
John  More  of  Aldus  having  erected  a  building,  of  how  he  was  the  first  to  commit  to  type 
an  author  than  whom  scarcely  any  other  is  worthier  of  being  read,  and  of  how  prior  to  his 
edition  'ilium  habebamus,  sed  ita  versum  [translated],  ut  ad  intelligendum  Delio,  quod 
aiunt,  natatore  esset  opus. . .',  an  expression  which  he  explained  in  his  Adagia. 


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APISTOTE'AOYS  TON  METATA"  $YSFKAV  A'AOA 
TCJMEIZON. 


Coming  some  years  after  the  controversy  of  the  1450s  and  1460s  as  to  the  respective 
position  of  Plato  and  Aristotle,  it  provided  a  handsomely  printed  text  of  the  original 
Greek  texts,  many  of  which  were  currently  available  in  manuscript  copies,  made  by  many 
of  the  leading  Greek  scribes  of  the  period. 

Three  manuscripts  used  as  printer's  copy  survive:  one  at  Harvard,  containing 
Theophrastus's  botanical  works,  Porphyry  and  various  other  works  (Harvard  gr.  17;  f.  Ill 
verso  (Theophrastus  HP.  11,7-2-5)  is  reproduced  in  Wolfenbuttel  1978),  and  two  in  Paris 
at  the  Bibliotheque  nationale  (  Paris.gr.  1848  (Metaphysics)  and  Paris.  suppl.  gr.  212 
(Historia  animalium)),  although  there  were  other  manuscripts  also  used  and  copied  as 
copy.  A  number  of  scholars  were  involved  in  the  undertaking  in  various  capacities: 
Linacre,  Musurus,  Alessandro  Bondini,  Lorenzo  Maioli  from  Genoa  and  Francesco 
Cavalli,  and  others  made  their  manuscripts  available. 

The  volumes,  sometimes  as  sets,  sometimes  as  groups  of  volumes,  quickly  passed  into  the 
possession  of  scholars,  and  thence  into  libraries  as  a  true  KEljir|)aov:  Corpus  Christi 
College,  Oxford,  acquired  one  in  1519  from  its  founder;  Magdalen  acquired  its  volumes 
in  1522;  Thomas  Linacre's  set  on  vellum,  presumably  brought  back  to  England  in  1499, 
is  at  New  College  (Linacre  is  mentioned  in  the  prefatory  letter  in  volume  1  ,  and  his 
translation  of  Proclus  De  sphaera  was  published  by  Aldus  in  1499);  All  Souls  had  two 
copies  (one  now  passed  on  to  Exeter  College),  one  of  which  excited  Dibdin  ('the  library 
of  ASC,  Oxford,  boasts  one  of  which  may  vie  with  either  [the  Heber  or  Valpy  copies.]', 
for  refs  see  below)  The  edition  did  not  however  sell  out:  like  many  other  great 
monuments  of  Greek  printing-  the  1488  Homer,  the  Rome  Eustathius,  the  Eton 
Chrysostom  -  it  sold  very  slowly.  It  was  expensive:  Amerbach  says  that  he  had  to  pay  1  2 
crowns  for  it,  6  times  what  the  Bebel  edition  cost  and  one  crown  less  than  the  great 
Froben  Augustine.  Erasmus,  who  elsewhere  says  it  was  difficult  to  find  outside  Italy 
(op.cit.  ix,139),  in  [1525]  was  ordering  it  with  a  number  of  other  Aldine  texts,  including 
the  Florentine  Homer  (op.cit.  vii,  547). 


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But  K8i|ir|A.LOV  it  became  and  remained,  often  handsomely  bound.  Emeric  Bigot's 
(1626-1689)  copy  is  a  fine  example  (recently  in  the  Norman  and  Freilich  sales;  now  in  a 
private  collection),  and  all  the  great  collectors  of  the  eighteenth  and  nineteenth  century, 
men  far  different  from  Chaucer's  poor  clerk,  were  keen  to  possess  a  copy,  from  George  III 
(an  earlier  royal  library  copy  is  at  Cambridge),  Grenville,  Cracherode,  and  Renouard  to, 
of  course,  that  doyen  of  bibliophiles  Lord  Spencer,  whose  copy  at  Althorp  was  described 
by  Dibdin  (Bibl.  Spenceriana  I,  258  )  in  uncharacteristically  subdued  language,  as  'large 
and  magnificent,  having  many  rough  edges  at  the  bottom  of  the  leaves,  and  beautifully 
bound  in  red  morocco'.  It  is  this  magnificent  copy  which  is  now  offered  for  sale. 

The  Greek  fonts,  with  separate  characters  for  accentuation,  were  based  on  the  calligraphic 
hand  of  Immanuel  Rhusotas  and  were  cut  by  Francesco  Griffo,  who  also  designed  the 
Aldine  italic. 

Provenance:  Count  Karoly  Imre  Sandor  de  Reviczky  (?),  catalogue  p.  29;  George  John, 
Earl  Spencer;  John  Rylands  University  Library  of  Manchester,  with  monogram  and 
stamps  (sale  in  our  rooms,  14  April  1988,  lot  10) 

References:  HC  *  16578;  GW  2334;  BMC  v  553,  555-556,  558;  Goff  A959;  Klebs  83.1; 
Renouard  pp.  7,  10-1 1  16;  Dibner  73;  Osier  229;  Norman  70;  PMM  38 

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p:meipifi:qno  p:imfi  quc.  a.  g.c.cam  que.  bb. 
icidittfcdimpoffibilc.lRocorincjitiginirrircu 
tioliu' ifinitum.  £2uarc ncq? mundnm:fi crat 
inFmitne.  (Cicctio.  X. 

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14 


45 


14  Aristotle.  De  caelo  et  mundo  (commentaries  by  Thomas  Aquinas  and  Petrus  de  Alvernia; 
edited  by  Hermmanus  de  Virsen).  Venice:  Bonetus  Locatellus  for  Octavianus  Scotus,  18 
August  1495 

Chancery  2°  (307  x  206mm.),  76  leaves,  double  column,  66  lines  of  commentary  and 
headline,  Gothic  letter,  4-  and  13-line  white-on-black  woodcut  initials,  a  few  woodcut 
diagrams  in  text  (that  on  d7  verso  partly  hand-coloured),  printer's  woodcut  device  at  the 
end,  contemporary  limp  vellum,  modern  morocco-backed  box,  a  few  small  wormholes  in 
text  of  last  few  leaves 

Second  edition,  the  first  to  contain  the  commentaries  of  Thomas  Aquinas  and  Petrus  de 
Alvernia  and  to  be  edited  by  Hermannus  de  Virsen.  The  editio  princeps,  printed  at  Padua 
by  Laurentius  Canozius,  de  Lendenaria,  for  Johannes  Philippus  Aurelianus  on  5  March 
1473  (Goff  A977),  contains  the  commentary  of  Averroes. 

This  edition  was  reprinted  by  Joannes  and  Gregorius  de  Gregoriis,  de  Forlivio,  on  31 
October  of  the  same  year. 

Provenance:  F.  Ludovicus  Syllanus  de  Grimaldo,  with  inscription  on  flyleaf 

References:  H  *1689=1531;  GW2355;  BMC  v  445;  Goff  A978;  Klebs  87(.2)=964.2; 
Essling  858;  Sander  582 

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46 


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15 

15  Aristotle.  De  anima  (translated  by  Joannes  Argyropulos;  edited  by  Wolfgang  Mosnauer). 
Venice:  Jacobus  de  Pentius,  de  Leuco,  23  October  [1500?] 

Chancery  4°  (208  x  154mm.),  34  leaves,  37  lines  and  headline,  Roman  and  Gothic 
letter,  4-,  7-  and  8-line  woodcut  initials,  old  limp  vellum,  light  dampstain  in  some  lower 
margins 

This  first  edition  of  Joannes  Argyropulos's  translation  of  De  anima  is  scarce:  only  one 
copy  is  recorded  by  Goff.  De  anima  was  first  printed  in  1472,  at  Padua  by  Laurentius 
Canozius  for  Johannes  Philippus  Aurelianus,  in  two  Latin  versions  and  with  the 
commentary  of  Averroes  (GW  2349).  Other,  anonymous  translations  were  printed  c. 
1492,  1498  and  1500  (GW  2343,  2344  and  2345),  and  two  further  editions  with  the 
commentary  of  Johannes  de  Mechlinia,  in  1491  and  1497  (GW  2347  and  2348). 

Jacobus  de  Pentius,  whose  first  known  book  is  an  edition  of  Pylades's  Grammatica  dated 
22  October  1495,  printed  mainly  in  the  sixteenth  century.  BMC  dates  the  present  edition 
on  the  basis  that  it  must  predate  Pentius's  edition  of  Gulielmus  Hentisberus,  De  sensu 
composite  [etc.],  dated  July  1501,  in  which  the  same  type  (84R)  has  been  cut  down  by  two 
or  three  millimetres. 

References:  HC  *1708;  GW  2346;  BMC  v  566;  Goff  A972;  IGI  799;  Klebs  84.7 

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tutatisfit  iugitet  verbafalutia  mtcnte  attctiat  t>no 


aurcs  auX)iet)i  aut>iat«^ 
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bci  tantu  pccatacfijrpi  capita  acceptu  erpuertt  t  tet 
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.i*m  ct«vna  ofuftonc  vt  turtat  ouit>i?li.vitj- 


16 

16  Auctoritates  Aristotelis  et  aliorum  philosophorum.  [Cologne:  Johann  Guldenschaff,  c. 
1490] 

Chancery  4°  (206  x  140mm.),  60  leaves,  36  lines  and  headline,  Gothic  letter,  2-,  3-  and 
4-line  initial  spaces,  modern  calf,  modern  box  and  wrappers 

A  scarce  edition  of  this  compendium  of  the  sentences  of  Aristotle  and  of  the 
commentators  on  his  logic,  together  with  summaries  of  Seneca,  Boethius,  Plato  and 
Apuleius.  As  the  prologue  states,  this  popular  work,  printed  in  some  two  dozen  editions 
before  the  end  of  the  fifteenth  century,  was  intended  as  a  source  of  themes  for  sermons 
and  for  academic  exercises.  Guldenschaff  had  previously  printed  two  folio  editions  in 
l487(GoffA1185&  1186). 

Provenance:  Dr  Crawford  W.  Adams,  with  bookplate  (sale  Sotheby's  New  York,  5  May 
1982,  lot  16);  George  Abrams,  with  bookplate  (sale  in  our  rooms,  16  November  1989, 
lot  11) 

References:  H  1921;  GW  2814;  VK  181 

£7,000-10,000 
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liocdia  Scnccc/Boertj  ^laronra.SpukuSffiicam  f>o: 
pbirq  ec  45ilbcrri  •f-omtani  acnw  fumma  c«m  Oiligcncw 
raufcecco:reae,      ,  v 

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17 


49 


17  Auctoritates  Aristotelis  et  aliorum  philosophorum.  [Cologne:  Heinrich  Quentell],  1498 

Chancery  4°  (200  x  139mm.),  53  leaves  (of  54,  without  final  blank),  36  lines  and 
headline,  Gothic  letter,  woodcut  of  a  master  and  his  pupils  on  al  recto  (coloured  by 
hand),  3-  and  4-line  initials  supplied  in  red,  paragraph-marks,  initial-strokes  and 
underlining  in  red,  modern  boards,  early  palindromic  inscription  on  title  'Oro  otto 
zeleuez  no[n]  zeuelez  oro  otto',  initials  'NS'  in  red  ink  below  the  colophon,  a  few  lines  of 
text  crossed  through 

References:  H  *1937;  GW  2827;  BMC  i  289;  IGI  954;  Schreiber  3388;  Goff  Al  196 

£4,000-6,000 
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50 


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de  cflnfenfti  euangeliftarum  feliciter 

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6j!iSunt.non  qlibus  tcctis&  creditis  a  perifaat*  comgi  pof 
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fide  criftiana  offenbicuh  patianf  qui  cimoforesqj  capacio  «. 
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piubent  conn&eranba  efle  arbitrantyr 

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18 


51 


18  Augustinus,  Aurelius,  Saint.  De  consensu  evangelistarum.  Lauingen:  [eponymous press],  12 
April  1473 

FIRST  EDITION,  Chancery  2°  (276  x  200mm.),  105  leaves  (of  108),  37  lines,  Roman 
letter,  3-line  woodcut  outline  initials,  two  six-line  initials,  initial-strokes  and  some 
underlining  in  red,  contemporary  blind-stamped  calf  over  unbevelled  wooden  boards, 
sides  ruled  in  blind,  large  central  panel  filled  with  repeated  impressions  of  a  lion  rampant 
tool,  outer  border  composed  of  the  same  tool  and  a  rosette,  5  metal  bosses  on  each  cover, 
metal  corner-pieces,  plain  edges,  flyleaves  from  a  vellum  manuscript,  modern  cloth  box, 
lacking  folio  7/1  and  the  initial  and  final  blank  leaves,  a  few  light  stains  in  margins,  rebacked 
with  boards  reversed,  lacking  two  clasps 

ONE  OF  ONLY  TWO  BOOKS  PRINTED  AT  LAUINGEN,  THE  ONLY  ONE  TO  NAME  LAUINGEN  AS 
THE  PLACE  OF  PRINTING.  An  edition  of  De  anima  et  spiritu  and  other  pseudo-Augustine 
tracts,  dated  9  November  1472  (Goff  A1224),  is  considered  to  represent  an  earlier  state  of 
the  same  type  and  is  thus  attributed  to  the  same  press.  While  the  earlier  work  is  printed  in 
a  pure  Roman  type,  the  present  book  mixes  some  Gothic  sorts  with  the  Roman,  and  the 
body  size  is  reduced  from  106  to  96.  The  outline  woodcut  initials  of  this  book  were  not 
used  in  the  earlier  one. 

The  unwatermarked  paper  stock  used  for  the  present  book  may  have  been  slightly  smaller 
than  the  common  Chancery  stock:  all  copies,  including  those  in  original  bindings,  seem 
to  have  leaf  heights  below  28  cm. 

References:  HC  *1981;  GW  2897;  BMC  ii  545;  Goff  Al 257 

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cgiffenosqucabmobu  mam* 
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gem  qt>  wfcus  tcftamcnfu  toea 

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tvnaUnt  pofltm?  occurcc^  brcuitc  c  ctia  B 
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no  fiadle  mtclitgat  fcdphjra^  c^poficoej  ab 
l;tj«  pcteba  cffc.qm  carii  boclojce  (c  efTe^pft 
teller  fieeiq;  poffc  vm-o  ifc  (cmp  acdbere  v^t 

17   I  A. 

ntuld  ntvJoche  vi^atut  abfutba»quc  tattteti 
a  bodcwibD  c)tp?nutur  co  iaubanba  vibcantv 
ciadu8.quo  abtecti^afpetnaba  vibcbant^ct 
co  acdpianfaperta  bu(n?quo  dau(a  bifFid 
laid  apkbanff  %)oe  trrc  m  fcfe  ivtcie  tcfla 
tncnti  hbris  euemt*ft  mo  ilk  q  offctnf  *oodo 
rcm  poti?  co:p  pit!  §;  tmptu  laccmto:c  rcqus 
tat.ptuifq;  flubto  querentis  qm  tcmcritatc 


nt  aliquot  foitcidberit  rd epos  tvl  pfl 
tvl  i^uiufccmobi  cede  c\tl; olt ccantiflitc^ct 
a  mmiftcos.qwi  aut  pafftm  dueantiiubare 
mtften'a*ai!t  qui  contvtt  (imptta  fibc  alcBza 
cognfcc  tto  aimrunt*txfpcrc  ibi  cfTe  foctiatti 


19  actual  size 


53 


19  Augustinus,  Aurelius,  Saint.  De  moribus  ecclesiae  catholicae.  [Cologne:  Bartholomaeus  de 
Unkel,  c.  1482] 

Chancery  4°  (212  x  142mm.),  34  leaves,  27  lines,  Gothic  letter,  one  5-  and  three  2-line 
initials  supplied  in  red,  initial-strokes  in  red,  modern  limp  vellum,  some  uncut  edges,  tear 
(paper flaw)  in  lower  margin  ofCCl 

BMC  suggests  that  this  tract  was  printed  by  Unkel  as  part  of  a  series  of  five  works  by,  or 
related  to,  Augustine,  the  others  being:  Confessiones,  dated  9  August  1482  (Goff  A1252); 
De  disciplina  christiana,  (Goff  A1261);  De  vita  christianawith  De  dogmatibus  christianis, 
(Goff  A1358);  and  Jacobus  de  Voragine's  Tractatus  super  libros  sancti  Augustini,  (GofT 
J203). 

References:  HC  *2108;  GW  2914;  BMC  i  242;  Goff  A1296;  Voull(K)  204 

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54 


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oocui :  volet  cs  oelmquerc  perfuafi  re 
fiftentes  coegi :  volentibus  confer.fi . 
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dujciivtam  quercmibus  fotieain  retejri: 
tpatrare  non  abbonui:obliuifci  no 
roettn.$edtuitiftu6uide,c  fignaspec 
cata  quafufacculo  obfcruafti  omnes 
fcmitas  mcaciTCuaos  grcflus  mcos 
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pattens  fuiftidBleb  mibi  ocma  lot 


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(Us  valida  igrueritrcum  aduocauehs 
celum  oefopent  terrain  oifcernere  po 
pulum  timy.z  ecce cowm  tot  milibus 
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tates  mee;  tot  agminibus  angelonl  pa 
tebunt  vmucrfa  fcelera  mea:  non  folu 
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tionurn.  ^ot  indie tbtis  inops  aitabo 
quotmepzecefferunt  inopere  bono: 
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p^ebuerut  bene  viue~die;:epla:tot  con/ 
uincar  teftib9  quot  me  mpnuerut  p:o 
ficuis  fermonibus.Tecaimttandoeitv 
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^ 

20 


55 


20  Augustinus,  Aurelius,  Saint.  Opuscula.  Venice:  Andreas  de  Bonetis,  23  July  1484 

Median  4°  (219  x  158mm.),  288  leaves,  double  column,  42  lines  and  headline,  Gothic 
letter,  printer's  woodcut  device  at  the  end,  3-  and  4-line  initials  supplied  in  red, 
contemporary  South  German  (Memmingen?)  blind-tooled  pigskin  over  unbevelled 
wooden  boards,  outer  frame  of  double  fillets,  central  panel  divided  with  double  fillets 
into  triangular  departments,  border  and  panel  decorated  with  three  round  stamps  of  a 
rosette,  the  Agnus  Dei  and  an  angel  (Kyriss  workshop  162,  nos.  1,  5  and  6),  one  clasp 
and  catch,  title  lettered  in  the  first  spine  compartment,  a  few  small  wormholes  in  last  few 
leaves,  a  few  headlines  shaved,  short  tear  in  lower  margin  of  v8  just  touching  edge  of  text,  Dl- 
2  lightly  damp-stained,  both  covers  slightly  wormed 

This  edition  of  authentic  and  pseudo-Augustinian  tracts  was  reprinted  from  that  of 
Octavianus  Scotus  of  28  May  1483  (Goff  A1216). 

The  present  edition  includes  additionally  the  pseudo-Augustinian  tract  De  anima  et 
spiritu,  two  works  by  Eusebius  Conrad  us,  De  errore  scribentium  Augustinum  fuisse 
heremitam  and  Annotatio  brevissima,  and  a  life  of  Augustine  by  Possidius.  Copies  of  this 
edition  are  known  without  the  printer's  device. 

Hildebrand  Brandenburg  of  Biberach,  the  great  benefactor  of  the  Buxheim  library  (cf.  lot 
24,  Ritman  sale  in  our  rooms,  6  December  2000),  made  use  of  this  workshop  for  the 
bindings  of  many  of  his  books.  This  volume,  however,  did  not  belong  to  him. 

Provenance:  Carthusians,  Buxheim,  with  inscription  and  stamp;  Dr  Victor  von 
Klemperer,  with  bookplate  (sale  in  our  rooms,  28  June  1991,  lot  583) 

References:  HC  *1947;  GW  2864;  BMC  v  361;  Goff  A1217 

£5,000-6,000 

€8,100-9,700 


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21 


57 


5  unitattmalos  caftere:  virtutef 
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mtmeim'am:  cuftodiarn  o:is  :? 

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21  detail,  enlarged 


21  Augustinus,  Aurelius,  5^/w?.  Opuscuk  plurima.  V£«/re:  Dionysius  Bertochus,  26  March 
1491 

Median  4°  (241  x  174mm.),  350  leaves,  double  column,  55  lines  and  headline,  Gothic 
letter,  3-,  5-,  6-  and  10-line  initial  spaces  with  printed  guide-letters,  woodcut  printer's 
device  at  the  end,  heading  on  bl  recto  printed  in  red,  final  blank  leaf  printed  on  recto 
with  column  a  of  R6  recto  and  column  b  of  R3  verso,  CONTEMPORARY  LONDON  BINDING 
BY  THE  'HALF-STAMP  BINDER',  blind-stamped  calf  over  unbevelled  wooden  boards,  sides 
ruled  with  triple  blind  fillets,  tools  include  a  pointing  hand  and  double-headed  eagle, 
plain  edges,  pastedowns  from  manuscript  vellum  leaves,  modern  cloth  box,  dust-soiling  on 
B5  verso  and  B6  recto,  lacking  2  clasps 

BOUND  BY  THE  'HALF-STAMP  BINDER',  to  whom  Oldham  ascribes  twenty-two  bindings  on 
books  dated  between  1491  and  1511  (J.B.  Oldham,  English  Blind-stamped  Bindings,  p.  29 
and  pis.  24  and  25,  tools  313,  315,  317  and  319).  The  tools  used  on  this  binding  include 
a  left  hand  with  a  pointing  forefinger.  The  binding  is  reproduced  by  G.D.  Hobson, 
English  Bindings  ofJ.R.  Abbey,  no.  2. 

This  edition  of  Augustine's  Opuscula  has  some  sixteen  more  tracts  than  those  in  the 
Venice,  23  July  1484  edition  (see  lot  20).  Ten  of  these  entered  by  way  of  its  chief  copy 
source,  the  20  March  1489  Strassburg  edition  of  Martin  Flach  (Goff  A1221),  and  six 
more  were  included  for  the  first  time  in  this  collection.  Of  these  latter,  marked  printer's 
copy  has  been  identified  for  one,  De  consensu  evangelistarum:  British  Library  Ms.  Add. 
69793  (formerly  in  the  Doheny  collection). 

In  the  present  copy,  as  in  a  few  others,  the  final  blank  leaf  has  printed  on  its  recto  the  left- 
hand  column  of  R6  recto  and  the  right-hand  column  R3  verso.  GW  describes  this 
additional  printing  as  a  'Korrekturabzug',  although  it  in  fact  introduces  a  final,  incorrect 
line  of  text  to  column  a  of  R6  recto. 

Provenance:  Richard  Vowel  (fl.  1507-1540,  Prior  of  the  Austin  Canons  at  Lees,  Essex,  and 
then  at  Walsingham,  Norfolk),  with  signature;  Richard  Towneley,  with  bookplate,  1702; 
Lord  O'Hagan  (sale  in  our  rooms,  6  June  1939,  lot  566);  Major  J.R.  Abbey,  with 
bookplate  (sale  in  our  rooms,  i,  21  June  1965,  lot  103) 

References:  H  *1949;  GW2866;  BMC  v  488;  Goff  Al  2  19;  IGI  1017 

£30,000-40,000 
€48,500-64,500 


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22  Augustinus,  Aurelius,  Saint.  Expositio  evangelii  secundum  Johannem.  [Basel:  Michael 
Furter,  not  after  1491] 

FIRST  EDITION,  Chancery  2°  (291  x  213mm.),  206  leaves,  double  column,  52  lines  and 
headline,  Gothic  letter,  12-line  initial  on  a2  recto  supplied  in  red  and  blue  with  red 
penwork  extensions  in  inner  margin,  4-  and  5-line  initials  in  red  or  blue,  initial-strokes  in 
red,  disbound,  in  a  modern  box,  first  three  gatherings  and  final  gathering  detached,  some 
light  dust-soiling  at  beginning  and  end,  one  small  wormhole  inforemargin  of  first  few  leaves 

Another  undated  edition  of  this  work  signed  by  Furter  is  described  by  GW  as  being  part 
of  a  1505  edition  printed  by  Amerbach,  Petri  and  Froben. 

Provenance:  Bibliothek  Oberherrlingen,  with  engraved  bookplate  dated  1839;  Madeleine 
and  Rene  Junod,  with  bookplate 

References:  HC  *1982;  GW  2912;  BMC  iii  753;  Goff  A1275 

£6,000-8,000 
€9,700-12,900 


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23  Avicenna,  i.e.  Husain  ibn  'Abd  Allah,  Abu  'Ali.  Metaphysica  (edited  by  Franciscus  de 
Macerata  and  Antonius  Fracantianus).  Venice:  Bernardinus  de  Vitalihusfor  Hieronymus  de 
Dumntibus,  26 March  1495,  FIRST  EDITION,  41  leaves  (of  42,  without  initial  blank  leaf), 
double  column,  65  lines  and  headline,  Gothic  letter,  3-,  4-  and  8-line  initial  spaces  with 
printed  guides,  heading  on  a2  recto  printed  in  red,  woodcut  device  at  the  end  of  the  text 

Galen.  Ugo  in  libris  microtechni  (commentary  by  Hugo  Senensis).  Venice:  Luc  Antonio 
Giunta,  1523,  4-  and  13-line  woodcut  initials,  3  woodcut  diagrams  in  text,  lacking  last  10 
leaves 

2  works  in  one  volume,  Chancery  2°  (287  x  204mm.),  late  sixteenth-century  English 
(Oxford?)  calf,  single  gilt  fillet  border,  gilt  centre-piece,  some  light  damp -staining,  rebacked 
and  edges  repaired 

FIRST  EDITION  OF  AVlCENNA's  METAPHYSICA,  in  which  he  attempted  to  integrate  all  aspects 
of  science  and  religion  in  a  grand  metaphysical  vision  and  thus  explain  the  formation  of 
the  universe  and  elucidate  the  problems  of  evil,  prayer,  providence,  prophecies,  miracles 
and  marvels.  The  second  work  is  a  rare  edition  of  Galen's  Microtechni  with  a  commentary 
by  Hugo  Senensis. 

FROM  THE  LIBRARY  OF  SIR  KENELM  DIGBY.  At  his  death  in  1665  his  library  was  still  in  Paris, 
where  the  authorities  sold  it  for  10,000  crowns.  It  was  repurchased  by  his  kinsman  the 
Earl  of  Bristol  who  then  offered  it  for  sale  by  auction  in  London  in  1680. 

The  centre-piece  on  this  binding  is  unrecorded  by  David  Pearson,  Oxford  Bookbinding 
1500-1640,  Oxford,  2000. 

Provenance:  Sir  Kenelm  Digby  (1603-1665),  with  signature  and  motto  on  first  title-page 
'Vacate  et  videte  Kenelme  Digby';  Capt.  EC.  Brooke,  Ufford,  Woodbridge  (Suffolk); 
Kenneth  Garth  Huston,  with  bookplate 

References:  Avicenna:  HC  2216=2217;  GW3130;  BMC  v  547;  GoffAl431;  Klebs  135.1; 
Galenus:  Waller  4977 

£4,000-5,000 
€6,500-8,100 


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De(ir.et:8i  toto  furget  gens  aurea  mundo 
Cafca  fauclucina  tuus  lam  regnat  appoUo 


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PLATO  PHILOSOPHVS 


24 


24  Barberiis,  Philippus  de.  Discordantiae  sanctorum  doctorum  Hieronymii  et  Augustini 
(Sibyllarum  et  prophetarum  de  Christo  vaticinia;  Proba:  Cento  Vergilianus;  Thomas 
Aquinas  (pseudo-):  Praefatio  super  symbolum  Athanasii;  Explanatio  super  orationem 
dominicam;  Explanatio  super  salutationem  angelicam;  Explanatio  super  Te  Deum; 
Explanatio  super  Gloria  in  excelsis;  Donatus  theologus).  Rome:  Joannes  Philippus  de 
Lignamine,  [after]  1  December  1481 

Second  edition,  Chancery  4°  (191  x  136mm.),  82  leaves,  27  lines,  Roman  letter,  3-,  4- 
and  7-line  initial  spaces,  29  woodcuts,  eighteenth-century  English  speckled  calf,  last  few 
leaves  stained,  a  few  leaves  partly  detached,  rebacked 

In  this  little  work  Barbieri  defends  fiercely  a  Thomist  position,  which  sees  all  knowledge 
and  truth  as  being  contained  in  the  thought  of  St  Thomas  Aquinas.  Barbieri  (1426- 
1487),  an  important  Dominican,  was  born  in  Syracuse,  travelled  much  in  Spain,  where 
he  was  involved  in  the  persecution  of  the  Jews  in  1479/80,  and  returned  to  Sicily 
probably  in  June  1485. 

The  woodcuts  of  the  prophets  and  sibyls  face  each  other  (cf.  the  prophets  and  sibyls  in 
Michaelangelo's  Sistine  chapel  paintings),  King  David  facing  the  Sibyl  of  Cumae,  who  is 
said  by  Virgil  in  Eclogue  IV  to  have  foretold  the  birth  of  Christ  (lines  4-10  of  the  poem 
are  actually  quoted  beneath  the  woodcut;  the  other  legends  are  all  in  prose,  largely  taken 
from  the  O.T.),  and  Isaiah  facing  Christ,  followed  by  John  the  Baptist  facing  a  cut  of  the 
Nativity  (with  a  non-biblical  text).  Last  comes  Plato  (with  the  opening  words  of  St.  John's 
gospel  as  legend),  but  facing  a  page  of  text  in  which  Augustine's  statements  about  Plato 
are  given,  followed  by  mention  of  Hermes  Trismegistus  and  Aristotle.  The  Cento  of 
Faltonia  Betitia  Proba,  Christian  poetess  and  the  wife  of  the  prefect  of  Rome  in  351,  is 
preceded  by  a  woodcut  of  her.  This  Cento  is  made  up  of  lines  of  Virgil  arranged  to  give  an 
account  of  the  creation  of  the  world  and  the  life  of  Christ,  a  suitable  adjunct  to  what  has 
been  foretold  by  sibyls  and  prophets,  about  his  coming.  The  remaining  texts  of  St. 
Thomas  on  the  Credo  and  the  great  hymns  and  prayers  of  the  church,  again  form  a  most 
fitting  sequel,  and  the  Donatus  theologus  (a  title  inscribed  in  a  very  early  hand  on  the  first 
leaf),  a  brief  summary  of  Christian  doctrine,  its  title  taken  from  the  most  famous 
grammar  book  of  the  Middle  Ages,  and  a  work  using  grammar  for  theological  questions 
('nam  filius  est  alius  a  patre:  et  tamen  est  deus.  Sed  si  li  solus  excludat  aliud  neutraliter 
tantum:  propositio  vera  est.  Quia  filius  est  alius  a  patre:  non  tamen  aliud.  Et  similiter 
spiritus  sanctus...)  closes  the  volume. 

There  are  a  few  early  sixteenth-century  marginal  notes,  in  an  English  hand. 

This  is  the  second  of  two  editions  printed  by  Lignamine,  both  dated  1  December  1481. 
The  earlier  edition  (Goff  PI  18)  contains  only  seventy  leaves  and  thirteen  woodcuts 
(Proba  and  the  twelve  sibyls),  which  were  recut  for  the  second  edition,  with  the  addition 
of  an  architectural  border.  The  twenty-nine  woodcuts  show  the  twelve  prophets,  the 
twelve  sibyls,  Christ,  St  John  the  Baptist,  the  Virgin  Mary,  Plato  and  Proba. 

Provenance:  C.W.  Dyson  Perrins,  with  bookplate  (sale  in  our  rooms,  17  June  1946,  lot 
36) 

References:  HCR  2455;  GW  3386;  BMC  iv  131;  Goff  Bl  19;  Sander  773;  A.W.  Pollard, 
Italian  book-illustrations  and  early  printing,  a  catalogue  of  early  Italian  books  in  the  library  of 
C.  W.  Dyson  Perrins,  1914,  24;  for  Barbieri  see  DBI6,  217-221 

£30,000-40,000 
€48,500-64,500 


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25  Bernardinus  Senensis.  Sermones  de  evangelic  aeterno.  Basel:  Nicolaus  Kesler,  [c.  1490- 
1495] 

Second  edition,  Chancery  2°  (302  x  21 4mm.),  299  (of  300)  leaves,  double  column,  56 
lines  and  headline,  Gothic  letter,  3-  and  5-line  initials  spaces,  a  few  with  printed  guide- 
letters,  printer's  woodcut  device  at  the  end,  early  sixteenth-century  German  or  Swiss 
pigskin  over  thick  unbevelled  wooden  boards,  tooled  in  blind  with  two  frames  enclosing  a 
diaper  of  curved  'headed-outline'  tools,  four  other  tools,  round  rosette,  lion  rampant 
lozenge,  eagle  standing  facing  left  with  wings  spread  lozenge,  free  plant,  light  brown 
edges,  lacking  fol.  1,  some  damp-staining  in  last  few  leaves,  lacking  one  clasp,  new  endpapers 

Second  edition,  which  BMC  dates  as  [not  after  1494]  on  the  basis  of  an  ownership 
inscription  dated  1494  in  a  copy  in  the  von  Klemperer  collection. 

The  binding  tools  are  not  recorded  in  Kyriss  or  Schwenke/Schunke. 

Provenance:  Bibliothek  Oberherrlingen,  with  bookplate  dated  1839;  Madeleine  and  Rene 
Junod,  with  bookplate 

References:  H  *2828;  GW  3887;  BMC  iii  773;  Goff  B350 

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26  Bernardus  Claravallensis,  Saint.  Sermones  de  tempore  et  de  sanctis  et  De  diversis. 
[Speyer:]  Peter  Drach,  [after  31  August  1481,  not  after  1482] 

Chancery  2°  (287  x  21 1mm.),  305  leaves  (of  306,  without  initial  blank  leaf),  double 
column,  44  lines,  Gothic  letter,  2-,  3-  and  8-line  initial  spaces,  initials,  headlines, 
paragraph-marks,  initial-strokes,  sermon  numbers  and  underlining  supplied  in  red, 
contemporary  blind-stamped  pigskin  over  wooden  boards,  4  metal  bosses  on  each  cover, 
two  clasps  and  catches,  with  an  additional  leaf  of  contemporary  manuscript  inserted 
between  V7  and  8,  short  tears  in  margins  of  a  few  leaves,  damp-stain  in  lower  margin  ofG7- 
8,  some  other  light  damp-staining  in  margins,  slight  worming  in  inner  margins  of  a  few  leaves 

The  third  edition  of  these  sermons  by  Bernard  of  Clairvaux,  which  were  first  printed  at 
Mainz  by  Peter  Schoeffer  in  1475  (Goff  B436)  and  then  by  the  Brothers  of  the  Common 
Life  at  Brussels  in  1481  (Goff  B433). 

The  present  copy  contains  an  additional  contemporary  manuscript  leaf  with  two  and  a 
half  columns  of  additional  text  to  be  inserted  after  'pote  principaliores'  in  line  1  of 
column  b  of  V7  verso,  apparently  to  supply  a  lacuna  in  the  printing  of  De  virginibus  sermo 
primo. 

Provenance:  Augustinian  canons  of  Rebdorf,  with  early  inscription  at  the  end  of  the  text; 
Felix  Strauss,  with  purchase  inscription  dated  1771 

References:  HC  *2846=H  2842;  GW  3942;  BMC  ii  491;  Goff  B437 

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27  Bernardus  Claravallensis,  Saint.  Flores.  Cologne:  Johannes  Koelhoff,  14 '[82],  161  leaves  (of 
162,  without  initial  blank  leaf),  double  column,  38  lines  and  headline,  Gothic  letter 

Albertus  Magnus  (pseudo-)  Compendium  theologicae  veritatis  (by  Hugo  (Ripelin) 
Argentinensis;  with  table  by  Thomas  Dorniberg).  [Strassburg:  Martin  Schott,  not  before 
1481],  144  leaves,  41  lines  and  headline,  Gothic  letter 

2  works  in  one  volume,  Chancery  2°  (279  x  207mm.),  2-,  3-,  4-,  6-  and  8-line,  initials  in 
red  or  blue,  a  few  in  the  second  work  with  penwork  decoration,  initial-strokes,  paragraph- 
marks  and  underlining  in  red,  contemporary  German  binding  of  dark  brown  calf  over 
thick  unbevelled  wooden  boards,  tooled  in  blind  to  a  diaper  pattern  inside  a  double 
frame,  decorated  with  only  two  tools,  leafy  tendrils  wrapped  around  a  staff,  and  a  flower 
in  a  vase,  a  few  early  manuscript  notes  in  margins,  lower  margin  of  first  leaf  cut  away  with 
loss  of  signature  and  repaired,  some  damp-staining  in  margins,  occasional  other  light  staining, 
first  14  leaves  of  the  second  work  bound  at  the  end,  both  boards  slightly  rubbed  and  wormed, 
rebacked,  one  clasp  renewed 

From  the  ancient  Benedictine  Abbey  of  SS.  Cosmas  and  Damian  at  Liesborn,  Westphalia, 
but  not  bound  by  the  abbey  bindery.  The  abbey,  founded  in  the  reign  of  Charlemagne, 
joined  the  reforming  Bursfeld  Congregation  in  the  fifteenth  century  and  became  a  centre 
of  book  production  and  learning.  The  large  abbey  library  survived  substantially  intact 
until  the  dissolution  in  1803. 

The  second  edition  of  Bernard  of  Clairvaux's  Flores,  first  printed  at  Nuremberg  by  Johann 
Sensenschmidt,  not  after  1470  (Goff  B388).  As  in  most  copies  of  this  edition,  the  second 
half  of  the  date  of  printing  has  been  added  by  hand  in  arabic  numerals. 

The  Compendium  theologicae  veritatis,  a  summary  of  important  theological  concepts,  was 
published  in  two  recensions  during  the  fifteenth  century.  That  printed  in  Nuremberg, 
Speyer,  Cologne,  Ulm,  Deventer  and  Strassburg,  with  the  longer  explicit,  treated  the  text 
as  anonymous;  that  printed  in  Venice  and  then  Lyons,  with  a  shorter  explicit,  attributed 
the  text  to  Albertus  Magnus.  Its  true  author,  Hugo  Ripelin  of  Strassburg  (d.  1368),  was 
prior  of  the  Dominican  convent  of  Strassburg.  The  text  was  first  printed  at  Nuremberg  by 
Johann  Sensenschmidt,  c.  1470-72  (Goff  A228). 

Provenance:  Benedictine  Abbey  of  SS.  Cosmas  and  Damian  at  Liesborn,  Westphalia,  with 
early  inscription  'liber  sanctissimi  dei  genetricis  Marie  sanctorumque  Symeonis  prophetae 
ac  Cosme  et  Damiani  martyrum  in  lesbron  ordinis  sancti  Benedicti';  B.  Middendorff,  of 
Widenbruge  (?),  early  inscription  dated  1660  recording  gift  to;  Joannes  Oisthaus;  Sir 
Joseph  Radcliffe,  Rudding  Park,  with  bookplate 

References:  Bernardus:  HC  *2926;  GW  3929;  Goff  B389;  Albertus:  HC  *435;  GW  602; 
BMC  i  93;  Goff  A237 

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ORATIO   PHIUPPI   BEROALD1   Bo 

NONIENSIS  DE  FELICITATE   HABl 

TA  IN   ENARRATIONE  GEf 

ORGICON  VIRG1LII  ET 

COLVMELLAE, 

AGNA   RES  EST  VIRI  OR 

natilTimi.ct  omnibus  horis  omnium 
m  uotis  expetita  f  clicitas  t  hue  tendunc 
eunctorum  uota  mortalium:  bee  eft 
fumma  curaru  :  hcc  eft  fumma  reru 
expetendarii. felicitate  terminatur  noftra  defide' 
ria  .  Cui  fclicitas  adefr.huic  nihil  prorfus  decft , 
Inueniuntut  qui  regna  non  optent:qui  uero  feli 
citatem  repudiet  nullus cxiftit  :  Nemo. n. non  fc 
lix  eflfe  uult :  Nemo  non  felicitate  fummum  bo  / 
noru  eflfe  confentit ,  Quo  circa  de  felicitate  huf 
mana  tanq  de  re  return  omniil  maxime  expetibif 
li  maximecp  expeteda  hodierno  die  diflfertare  col 
ftitui :  Et  in  hac  difl'ertatione  Ex  latiflimo  pra/ 
torum  uirore  f  lofculos  non  paucos  hinc  inde  de/ 
cerpere  t  Quorum  odoratu  olfactantes  recreenf . 
Audmiolim  ecclefiafticoscontionatoresmo  pat/ 
tix  in  ecclefia  exiftimationis  fuper  felicitate  conci 
onantes.  Sed  tarn  implicataJtam  fpinofa/tam  in/ 

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28  Beroaldus,  Philippus.  De  felicitate  opusculum.  Bologna:  Franciscus  Plato  de  Benedictus,  1 
April  1495 

FIRST  EDITION,  Chancery  4°  (213  x  152mm.),  36  leaves,  25  lines,  Roman  letter,  initial 
spaces  with  printed  guide-letters,  heading  on  al  recto  printed  in  red,  printer's  woodcut 
device  on  d8  recto,  modern  boards,  a  few  early  manuscript  notes  in  margins,  some  light 
spotting  and  staining  in  margins 

The  humanist  tractates  and  neo-Latin  verses  of  Filippo  Beroaldi  enjoyed  considerable 
popularity  in  the  late  fifteenth  and  early  sixteenth  centuries.  The  treatise  De  felicitate, 
with  its  emphasis  on  the  importance  of  moderation,  is  recorded  in  six  incunable  editions. 
The  dedication  to  this  first  edition,  addressed  to  Jakob  II,  Margrave  of  Baden  (1471- 
1511,  elected  Bishop  of  Trier  in  1503),  records  that  Beroaldi  commissioned  an  edition  of 
a  thousand  copies.  A  poem  by  Beroaldi  at  the  end  praises  Germany  for  its  discovery  of  a 
gift  greater  than  any  known  to  antiquity:  the  art  of  multiplying  books  by  printing. 

References:  HC  2969;  GW4132;  BMC  vi  828;  Goff  B482;  IGI  1594 

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picnics  Magna  cura  Impreffum  Bononi'a: 
per  Benedidum  Hedloris  Bono/ 
nienfem .   Anno  Salu/ 
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29  Beroaldus,  Philippus.  Libellus  quo  septem  sapientium  sententiae  discutiuntur.  Bologna: 
Benedictus  Hectoris,  18  December  1498 

FIRST  EDITION,  Chancery  4°  (193  x  142mm.),  24  leaves,  27  lines,  Roman  letter,  3-line 
initial  spaces,  printer's  woodcut  device  on  c7  verso,  nineteenth-century  straight-grained 
roan,  large  arabesque  in  blind  on  sides,  some  light  spotting 

References:  HC(Add)  *2974;  GW  4138;  BMC  vi  844;  GoffB487;  IGI  1598;  Klebs  183.1 

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30  Bible,  Latin.  [Basel:  JohannAmerbach],  1479 

Chancery  2°  (300  x  21  4mm.),  548  leaves  (a-y  A-T10  V12  X-Y10  1-810  9-108  ),  double 
column,  47  lines  and  headline,  Gothic  letter,  6-,  7-  and  13-line  initials  supplied  in  red 
and  blue  interlock  with  brown  and  red  penwork  decoration  extending  into  margins,  3- 
line  initials  supplied  alternately  in  red  and  blue,  paragraph-marks  and  initial-strokes  in 
red  (North  German  or  Netherlandish?),  contemporary  calf  over  wooden  boards,  sides 
ruled  in  blind,  brass  corner-  and  centre-pieces  and  two  catches  on  upper  cover,  modern 
cloth  box,  6  pages  of  contemporary  manuscript  sermon  notes  (?)  bound  at  the  beginning, 
many  contemporary  notes  in  margins,  repair  in  lower  margin  ofg2,  short  tear  in  text  ofg9 
and  L2,  two  clasps  renewed,  lacking  corner-  and  centre-pieces  on  lower  cover,  spine  repaired  at 
head  and  foot 

AN  INTERESTING  COPY  WITH  CLEAR  PROOF  OF  DETAILED  CONTEMPORARY  STUDY.  This  was 
the  first  of  the  many  editions  to  contain  the  commendatory  verses  'Fontinus  ex  graecis...'. 
Some  copies  of  this  Bible  are  found  bound  with  the  Interpretationes  from  Amerbach's 
1481  edition  (GW  4246).  GW  records  a  variant  printing  on  9/8  verso,  which  omits  the 
nufnjc  which  is  here  printed  above  1.  21  of  the  second  column. 

The  marginal  annotations  are  in  a  contemporary  English  (?)  hand,  and  although  scattered 
throughout  (with  four  only  in  the  New  Testament),  are  found  mainly  in  Genesis,  Joshua, 
Kings  (especially  Kings  IV)  and  Chronicles  I.  In  addition  to  marginal  summaries  and 
occasional  additions,  there  are  also  running  headlines  written  at  the  top  of  columns. 

The  manuscript  leaves  bound  at  the  beginning  seem  largely  based  on  Exodus,  Kings,  and 
other  O.T.  books,  grouped  under  various  headings  -  De  trinitate  figura,  De  templo  dei 
(with  text  drawing  on  the  book  of  Esdras),  De  traditione,  De  cruce  passionis  &  resurrectione 
domini,  De  beate  marie  virginis  assumptione. 


GW  gives  an  erroneous  leaf-count  of  538  leaves  by  omitting  quire  Y  ,  while  BMC  and 
BSB-Ink  include  the  Interpretationes  of  the  1481  edition  to  give  a  total  leaf-count  of  572. 

A  sixteenth-century  (?)  manuscript  note  at  the  foot  of  the  front  paste-down  reads:  'FaVX 
Satanae  Sedes  Apostolica  666'.  On  the  back  paste-down  are  two  early  pen  sketches  of  the 
crucified  figure  of  Christ. 

Provenance:  Madeleine  and  Rene  Junod,  with  bookplate 

References:  HC  *3075;  GW  4236  (+  var);  BMC  iii  745;  Goff  B561;  BSB-Ink  B-433 

£30,000-40,000 
€48,500-64,500 


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drine  &  excelletioris  ingenii  fuerat  eligendus  orator:  qui 
fua  dicendi  aucflorftare  ac  uehementia:primum  tante  Ma 
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masinduceret*modoindud:oseordem  prcbabilibus  ar^ 
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turn  domus  medice  decus  ac  gloriam:denicpgenerofi  Lau 
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memorare  police*  Verum  quomodo  accidifle  dicairr'non 
penuria  eloquentium:quibus  hec  urbs  feliciflima  Nea  / 
polis  abund  it:non  negligentia  aut  improuida  optione  : 
fola  ut  reor  cemporis  angufb'a  mihi  potiflimum  hoc  pro>* 
umcia  repoficaefl::tanqu3m  minorem  iadluram  fubituro: 
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legem  eile  conftat.degufbbo  igftur  ac  leuiter  uelat  apis 
g  florea  rura  fagieati  affimilisttum  Flcrentie;tum 


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75 


3 1  Bienatus,  Aurelius,  Bishop.  Oratio  in  funere  Laurentii  de  Medicis  habita.  [Milan: 
Philippus  de  Mantegatiis,  after  8  April  1492] 

Chancery  4°  (207  x  148mm.),  8  leaves,  27  lines,  Roman  letter,  one  2-line  initial,  modern 
vellum  boards,  foremargins  frayed  at  top  and  bottom,  some  dampstaining  and  light  browning 

Lorenzo  de'  Medici  died  on  8  April  1492  and  this  oration  was  delivered  by  Aurelio 
Bienato,  Bishop  of  Martirano,  Calabria,  eight  days  later  in  the  church  of  S.  Maria  la 
Nuova  in  Florence.  In  it,  Bienato  emphasizes  the  newly-established  political  links 
between  Florence  and  Naples,  the  result  of  an  alliance  forged  by  Lorenzo  with  Ferdinand 
of  Aragon,  King  of  Naples. 

Bienato  was  also  the  author  of  an  epitome  of  Lorenzo  Valla's  Elegantiae  linguae  latinae, 
three  editions  of  which  were  printed  at  Naples  between  1478-80  and  1491. 

References:  CR  780=1051;  GW  4346;  BMC  vi  784;  GofTB667;  IGI  1722 

£7,000-10,000 
€11,300-16,200 


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I  nea  me  marcet  ono  -et  m  alieno  fait9  fauoje  fe '. 
curionret  m  publicu  aouerterecp  fins  no  pricipi  t>iro-  SeD  po 
fius  cu  b  mulieribo  loqueref  aliciii  mfigni  femme  ceflmaDum 
foze  •  ^x4r^inDignio2e  ante  alias-  renit  hi  mcnp  italicu  jubar 
illuD  pfulgiDu  ac  fingularis  no  tm  femmap  fecet  ^egu  gloria 
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nifignita  es  noie  cdigri  txjluerit  •  €um  auDies  gred  qb  lattne 
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ena  returtiffimiB  arbitrat9  613- $t  iwo  cu  tepeftace  nfa  mfrts  at 
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tanctftenemerito  mo  ftilgoji  bui9iitrlli  rimli  nmi9apied(Tere 
litn  ejciftimaa  n5mm9  apuo  pofteros  tuo  nomi  aDDiDifTe  crco 
ris  paucis  bijs  littenilis-qua  feceht  olim  motts  ot)2ofiv  i  niic 
altp  oille  romitat9-4b>  te  fb2tuna  fedt  illuftreni  rto  tegmitto 
et  tuo  nomi  a?Di<o  qb  batten9  a  me  b  mulierib?  pdaris^  feripr 
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misliifcjpiafl-et  ft  micbi  alic^o  creDimin  es-aliqn  legas  (uateo 


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32  Boccaccio,  Giovanni.  De  claris  mulieribus.  [Strassburg:  GeorgHusner,  c.  1474-1475] 

Chancery  2°  (277  x  204mm.),  84  leaves,  35  lines,  Gothic  letter,  3-  and  6-line  initial 
spaces,  initials  supplied  in  red,  the  first  with  brown  penwork  decoration,  paragraph- 
marks,  initial-strokes  and  underlining  in  red,  red  morocco  by  Thompson,  gilt  edges,  black 
straight-grained  morocco  slipcase,  contemporary  manuscript  quiring  in  lower  margins, 
nineteenth-century  bibliographical  note  on  front  flyleaf,  a  washed  copy,  light  spotting  in 
upper  margins  of  first  few  leaves 

The  second  edition  of  Boccaccio's  De  claris  mulieribus,  preceded  by  Johann  Zainer's  Ulm 
edition  of  1473  which  was  illustrated  with  81  woodcuts.  According  to  BMC  the 
Boulogne  copy  has  an  ownership  inscription  dated  1479. 

Provenance:  A.  Odell,  with  ownership  inscription;  Hans  Meyer,  Leipzig,  with  ownership 
inscription;  George  E.  Sears,  with  bookplate 

References:  HC  *3327(var);  GW  4484;  BMC  i  83;  Goff  B717;  BSB-Ink  B-560 

£15,000-25,000 
€24,300-40,400 


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33  Bonaventura,  Saint.  De  triplici  via  (Methodius  (pseudo-):  Revelationes;  Bonaventura: 

De  preparatione  ad  missam).  [Cologne:  Ulrich  Zel,  before  18  September  1477] 

Chancery  4°  (210  x  145mm.),  48  leaves,  26  lines,  Gothic  letter,  2-,  3-  and  4-line  initials 
supplied  in  red  or  blue,  paragraph  marks,  initial  strokes  and  underlining  in  red,  modern 
vellum,  contemporary  quire  numbering  a-f°  (cropped  in  most  cases),  some  small 
wormholes  in  margins 

The  second  edition  of  De  triplici  via,  a  brief  but  complete  summary  of  medieval  mystical 
doctrine  and  the  best  known  of  Bonaventure's  mystical  writings.  It  was  first  printed 
anonymously  at  Speier  by  the  Printer  of  the  'Gesta  Christi',  c.  1472-1473  (GW  4705). 

A  copy  of  the  present  edition  was  presented  to  Ennen  on  18  September  1477. 
References:  HC  *3498;  GW4706;  BMC  i  193;  Goff  B970;  Voullieme  (K)  275 

£4,000-5,000 
€6,500-8,100 


79 


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34  Bonaventura,  Saint.  Opuscula.  Strassburg:  Martin  Flach,  31  October  1489 

Chancery  2°  (286  x  212mm.),  288  leaves,  double  column,  51  lines  and  headline,  Gothic 
letter,  first  initial  supplied  in  blue  on  a  red  panel  with  blue,  pink  and  green  leafy 
extensions  in  margin,  other  3-  and  4-line  initials,  paragraph-marks  and  initial-strokes  in 
red,  contemporary  Austrian(?)  binding  of  black  calf  over  wooden  boards,  the  surface  of 
the  leather  mostly  perished,  the  upper  cover  shows  traces  of  having  been  divided  into  six 
squares,  each  containing  a  free  rosette  inside  a  frame  of  'headed-outline'  tools,  the  lower 
cover  divided  by  a  diaper  and  decorated  with  a  small  round  stag  tool,  a  very  small  rayed 
circle  and  a  palmette,  each  inside  a  surround  of  foliate  tools,  two  clasps  and  catches,  edges 
plain,  sewing  guards  from  a  vellum  manuscript  leaf  written  in  Caroline  miniscule, 
modern  cloth  box,  a  few  stains  on  first  and  last  leaves,  binding  very  worn,  catches  repaired 

St  Bonaventure  (1221-1274),  a  Franciscan,  'doctor  seraphicus',  was  one  of  the  most 
important  theologians  of  the  thirteenth  century.  This  fourth  edition  of  his  Opuscula  is  the 
first  to  contain  Octavianus  de  Martinis's  life  of  the  saint.  The  seven  incunable  editions  of 
the  Opuscula,  the  earliest  of  which  was  printed  at  Cologne  in  1484,  all  contain  a  varying 
number  of  works;  the  present  edition  contains  twenty- two. 

The  binding  tools  are  not  recorded  by  Schwenke/Schunke  or  Kyriss.  A  half-obliterated 
inscription  inside  the  upper  cover  mentions  Lambach  (in  Styria:  Benedictine  Abbey 
founded  in  1086). 

Provenance:  Rendel  Harris  Library,  Selly  Oak  Colleges,  with  bookplate 
References:  HC  *3465;  GW4647;  BMC  i  150;  Goff  B927;  CIBN  B-615 

£10,000-15,000 
€16,200-24,300 


82 


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lauoibus  matie  tefetemus/cum  omnium  nofhum  membta  fi  m 
Jmguas  «oertetcntut  earn  laucate  nulius  fnfficetc  valetet-  3^ 
cum  ^aus  non  fit  predofa  m  etc  peccatoue/quomooo  ego  rnifei 
peccato:  bcmo/quomoco  moigir.fTmie  vite  ego  bomimdo*!auo?f 
3110223  fonace^cum  m  Hs  iHum  oigmflfmic  vitc 


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35  Bonaventura  (pseudo-)  Speculum  Beatae  Mariae  Virginis.  [Augsburg:]  Anton  Sorg,  29 
February  1476 

FIRST  EDITION,  Chancery  2°  (260  x  206mm.),  48  leaves  (of  50,  without  first  and  last 
blank  leaves),  39  lines,  Gothic  letter,  one  8-line  woodcut  Maiblumen  initial  and  other  4- 
line  woodcut  lombard  initials,  the  first  5  coloured  in  red,  paragraph-marks  and  initial- 
strokes  in  red,  modern  vellum,  a  few  early  manuscript  notes  in  margins,  several  leaves 
strengthened  in  inner  margins,  some  light  dampstaining  in  margins 

Traditionally  ascribed  to  Bonaventure,  this  devotional  work  about  Mary  is  now  thought 
to  be  by  the  Minorite  Conrad  Holzinger  of  Saxony.  Sorg  printed  a  second  edition  in  the 
following  year. 

References:  HC  *3566;  GW  4817;  BMC  ii  343;  GofTB959 

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biliuslocentur  Fides, Spes.Charitas.  pcipua  hu 
manse  fudameta  falutis/ante  omnef  uocatx  tbeo 
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hauftis  thefauns  benefici  noftri/magniq^  deuex 
ea  tepons  fcehcitate  affluentius  et  copiofius:quo 
uenit  ad  nosamatorhominu  chriftus  parenf  bo 
norum  omniumieteorum  bominum  doctor  :  cj 
libenter  ei  fe  dociles  exhibet:ut  late  difputatum 
fuit  inter  nos  beri .  Poft  has  ,pxime  aflfideat  tur 
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nec^  a  nobis  aliens  uncj  extitere  Jufti'ciam  dico^ 
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ac  extrema  omnia  potius:  §  decipiat  /  cii 


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36 

36  Bossus,  Matthaeus,  Canon  Regular  of  the  Lateran.  De  instituendo  sapientia  animo. 
Bologna:  Franciscus  (Plato)  de  Benedictis,  6 November  1495 

Chancery  4°  (213  x  153mm.),  128  leaves,  24  lines,  Roman  letter,  initial  spaces,  some 
with  printed  guide-letters,  printer's  woodcut  device  on  Q3  verso,  nineteenth-century 
vellum-backed  boards,  some  early  manuscript  notes  in  red  ink,  first  few  leaves  partly 
detached,  title-page  lightly  stained  and  with  small  repair  in  inner  margin,  occasional  light 
staining,  binding  slightly  rubbed  at  edges 

Matteo  Bosso  (1427-1502),  a  native  of  Verona,  was  Abbot  of  Fiesole  between  1484  and 
1492.  The  present  work,  written  in  Verona  in  1494  and  dedicated  to  Severino  Calco, 
comprises  eight  dialogues  on  the  subject  of  philosophy  and  wisdom.  The  wisdom  of  the 
ancient  philosophers  is  dismissed  in  favour  of  true  wisdom  which  is  to  be  found  in  a 
belief  in  God.  The  route  to  human  perfection  is  through  prayer,  rather  than  by  recourse 
to  astrology.  The  work  concludes  with  an  epigram  by  Antonio  Aldegathi. 
In  his  final  book,  Bossus  praises  his  contemporaries,  notably  Ficino  and  Pico  della 
Mirandola,  the  fomer  of  whom  is  lauded  for  his  translations  of  Plato,  and  the  latter  as  one 
of  the  most  splendid  luminaries  of  the  age.  Pico  had  been  sent  by  Lorenzo  de'  Medici  to 
Pico  to  study  with  him.  Bossus  here  shows  himself  as  adopting  strongly  Neoplatonic 
views,  and  stresses  that  philosophy  is  valid  only  if  conjoined  with  Christianity:  'unde 
philsophi  quibus  christiana  non  illuxit  foelicitas;  sunt  vagati  per  tenebras  erroresque 
pueriliter'  (Hence  it  is  that  those  philsophers  on  whom  the  happy  light  of  Christianity  has 
not  shined,  have  wandered  childishly  through  darkness  and  errors). 

Provenance:  H.C.  Hoskier,  with  signature  dated  Feb.  1903  (sale  in  our  rooms,  30  June 
1908,  lot  244);  Walter  Goldwater,  with  bookplate  (sale  New  York,  i,  1  December  1983, 
lot  82) 

References:  HC  3675=*3677;  GW  4954;  BMC  vi  828;  IGI  2020;  GoffBl043;  Christ, 
Plato,  Hermes  Trismegistus  ( 1 990)  no.  6 1 


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37  Burley,  Walter.  De  vita  et  moribus  philosophorum.  [Nuremberg:  Anton  Koberger,  before 

1473] 

Chancery  2°  (278  x  204mm.),  94  leaves,  31  lines,  Gothic  letter,  2-,  4-  and  6-line  initial 
spaces,  first  initial  in  blue  and  red  with  green  and  red  penwork  decoration  extending  into 
margin,  other  initials,  paragraph-marks,  initial-strokes  and  underlining  in  red,  English 
mid-eighteenth-century  morocco,  2-line  gilt  border,  upper  cover  detached,  short  tear  at 
head  of  spine,  edges  rubbed 

Walter  Burley  (1275-1345?),  philosopher  and  commentator  on  Aristotle,  studied  at  Paris 
and  Oxford,  where  he  was  a  disciple  of  Duns  Scotus.  He  became  preceptor  to  Edward, 
Prince  of  Wales,  the  Black  Prince,  later  Edward  III.  THe  Vita  et  moribus  philosophorum 
contains  the  brief  lives  of  120  poets  and  philosophers  including,  amongst  many  others, 
Zoroaster,  Homer,  Priscian  and  Seneca. 

The  present  edition  is  the  earliest  of  the  incomplete  'South  German'  recension,  lacking 
some  thirteen  lives  found  in  the  'Cologne'  recension.  A  copy  in  the  Bibliotheque 
nationale  contains  a  rubrication  date  of  1474. 

References:  H  *4l  12;  GW  5785;  BMC  ii  41 1;  Goff  B1319 

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38  Burley,  Walter.  De  vita  et  moribus  philosophorum.  [Cologne]:  Conrad  Winters,  de 
Homborch,  [between  17  March  and  20  September  1479] 

Royal  8°  in  quarter  sheets  (160  x  1 15mm.),  1 12  leaves,  27  lines,  Gothic  letter,  2-,  3-  and 
5-line  initial  spaces,  initials,  paragraph-marks,  initial-strokes  and  underlining  supplied  in 
red,  eighteenth-century  mottled  calf,  spine  gilt  in  compartments,  edges  stained  red, 
extensive  early  manuscript  notes  on  verso  of  final  leaf  and  at  the  end  of  the  table,  fore- 
margins  cropped  with  initials  shaved  in  a  few  cases 

The  present  edition  is  the  second  of  the  complete  text,  reprinted  from  Ulrich  Zel's 
Cologne  Chancery  quarto  edition  of  c.  1470.  The  Royal  paper  used  for  this  edition  was 
probably  a  remnant  from  the  supply  for  Winters's  two  Royal  folios  of  this  period, 
Gregory,  Homilia  in  Job  (Goff  G429)  and  Pharetra  doctorum  (Goff  P573). 

References:  HC  4121;  GW  5782;  BMC  i  246;  Goff  Bl 3 16;  Voull(K)  297 

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39  Cicero,  Marcus  Tullius.  De  officiis;  Paradoxa  stoicorum.  Mainz:  Johann  Fust  and  Peter 
Schoeffer,  1465 

FIRST  EDITION,  Chancery  2°  (245  x  174mm.),  88  leaves,  28  lines,  Gothic  and  Greek 
letter,  headings  and  colophon  printed  in  red,  Italian  illuminated  7-line  initial  on  fol.  1 
recto  supplied  in  gold  with  vinework  decoration  in  blue,  green,  pink  and  red,  3  6-line 
initials  in  red  and  blue  with  penwork  decoration,  1-  and  2-line  initials  supplied 
alternately  in  red  and  blue,  paragraph-marks  in  red  and  blue,  eighteenth-century  German 
red  morocco  gilt,  single  line  gilt  fillet,  spine  gilt  in  compartments,  gilt  edges,  marbled 
endpapers,  modern  morocco  box,  cloth  chemise,  a  few  early  manuscript  notes  in  margins, 
pencilled  examination  note  by  Seymour  de  Ricci  on  a  rear  flyleaf,  some  scattered  light 
staining,  2  short  tears,  on  upper  cover 

ONE  OF  THE  TWO  EARLIEST  PRINTINGS  OF  LATIN  LITERATURE  AND  THE  EARLIEST 
APEARANCE  IN  PRINT  OF  ANY  LATIN  POEM.  The  De  officiis  occupied  much  the  same  place  as 
the  Bible,  and  continued  to  occupy  it  for  generation  after  generation.  There  is  no  other 
secular  book  which  approaches  it. 

Cicero's  De  officiis,  Tully's  Offices,  as  it  was  for  long  known  in  England,  is  a  basic  text  of 
moral  philosophy,  written  in  a  marvellously  clear  and  elegant  Latin.  It  is  both  a 
philosophical  and  a  literary  text,  and  it  is  primarily  as  the  latter  that  it  is  here  printed, 
although  it  was  as  a  moral  text  that  throughout  the  Middle  Ages  it  was  constantly 
quarried  as  a  source  by  Christian  writers,  notably  St.  Ambrose,  whose  De  officiis 
ministrorum  draws  heavily,  both  in  style  and  content,  on  Cicero.  There  exist  many 
manuscripts  from  the  fourteenth  and  fifteenth  centuries  -  'a  host  of  recentiores'  (Michael 
Winterbottom  in  Reynolds  Text  and  Transmission  (1983)  p.  131)  ,  and  it  was  its  huge 
popularity  that  led  to  its  being  the  first  classical  work  to  be  printed,  and  almost 
immediately  to  be  reprinted.  The  De  officiis  is  here  followed  by  the  Paradoxa,  a  work 
dealing  with  the  unbelievable,  and  belonging  to  a  tradition  of  ancient  paradoxographi, 
which,  through  various  mediums,  was  popular  not  only  in  medieval  but  also  in 
Renaissance  times:  there  is  in  fact  a  whole  group  of  such  writers  in  the  early  modern 
period,  stretching  up  to,  and  beyond,  Sir  Thomas  Browne. 

Added  after  the  end  of  the  Paradoxa,  are  the  'Versus  xii  sapientum. . .  positi  in  epithaphio 
Marci  Tulii  Ciceronis',  placed  at  the  end, and  followed  by  Appolonius  [sic]  rhetor  grecus 
secundum  Plutarcum.  /Te  nempe  cicero.  Et  laudo  et  admiror.  Se  grecorum/fortune  me 
miserete..  cum  videam  erudicionem  &  eloquentiam./que  sola  bonorum  nobis  relicta  erat. 
Per  te  romam  accessisse./  This  must  be  Apollonius  Molon  who  taught  the  young  Cicero 
who  praised  him  in  his  Brutus. 

Why  did  the  printer  choose  Horace's  ode  Diffugere  nives?  Here,  as  often,  it  is  given  the 
title  'Manlio  torquato.  Flaccius.  De  vite  hu=/mane  brevitate.  Per  aparacionem,  temporis 
hec'.  But  what  we  have  is  one  of  Horace's  most  famous  odes  with  its  intimations  of 
mortality  —  Quo  pius  eneas.  Quo  tullus  dives  et  ancus/Pulvis  et  umbra  sumus-.  It  can 
hardly  have  been  to  'fill  a  page',  -  but  yet  the  history  of  early  printing  is  riddled  with  'ne 
pagina  vacet'.  Odes  IV.  7,  a  poem  memorably  translated  by  Housman,  appears  to  be 
about  spring,  and  yet  it  isn't,  it  contains  the  marvellous  images  of  other  seasons,  of 


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summer  and  of  autumn  with  its  fruits,  and  of  the  return  of  winter,  all  closely  followed  by 
the  images  of  death  and  decay,  and  it  is  death  which  is  its  real  subject  (cf.  E.  Fraenkel, 
Horace  p.  419).  Did  this  have  some  particular  resonance  for  the  editor  of  this  volume?  We 
know  that  for  Housman  it  did:  'one  morning  in  May,  1914,  when  the  trees  in  Cambridge 
were  covered  with  blossom,  he  reached  in  his  lecture  Ode  7  of  Horace's  Fourth  Book... 
and  in  quite  a  different  voice  said:  'I  should  like  to  spend  the  last  few  minutes  considering 
this  ode  simply  as  poetry'  ...  He  read  the  ode  aloud  with  deep  emotion...  'That',  he  said 
hurriedly,  almost  like  a  man  betraying  a  secret,  'I  regard  as  the  most  beautiful  poem  in 
ancient  literature',  and  walked  quickly  out  of  the  room'  (Mrs  Pym  in  Grant  Richards, 
Housman  (1941)  p.  289). 

This  beautiful  copy  was  decorated  in  Italy,  although  by  the  first  half  of  the  eighteenth 
century  it  had  migrated  northwards  before  crossing  the  Atlantic  ocean. 

This  editio  princeps  of  De  officiis  competes  for  priority  with  the  undated  Subiaco  edition 
of  the  same  author's  De  oratore  which  has  been  dated,  on  the  basis  of  an  inscription  in  a 
copy,  once  at  Leipzig  and  now  missing,  [before  30  September  1465]. 

The  present  edition  was  printed  both  on  paper  and  vellum,  in  approximately  equal 
quantities.  A  page-for-page  reprint  was  completed  on  4  February  1466  and  a  considerable 
number  of  copies  contain  mixed  sheets  from  both  editions.  The  present  copy,  however,  is 
made  up  entirely  of 'pure'  1465  sheets.  All  copies  of  both  editions  measure  considerably 
less  than  the  approximately  30-cm  height  of  a  standard  Chancery  folio,  suggesting  that 
the  paper  sheets  were  trimmed  down,  probably  before  going  to  press,  to  conform  in  size 
to  rather  smaller  vellum  sheets. 

THIS  BOOK  IS  LIKEWISE  ONE  OF  THE  TWO  EARLIEST  TO  CONTAIN  GREEK  TYPE;  an  edition  of 

Lactantius's  Opera,  printed  by  Sweynheym  and  Pannartz  at  Subiaco  on  30  October  1465 
contains  substantial  Greek  quotations.  The  Greek  type  of  the  present  edition,  used  for  the 
apopthegms  printed  at  the  beginning  of  each  of  the  six  sections  of  the  Paradoxa,  was 
crudely  designed,  with  some  of  the  letters  printed  backwards,  indicating  that  the  printers 
did  not  know  Greek.  After  Fust  and  Schoeffer's  second  edition  of  1466,  German  printers 
did  not  attempt  to  use  Greek  type  for  another  twenty  years,  instead  using  transliteration 
or  leaving  space  for  manuscript  additions. 

According  to  De  Ricci's  published  description  of  this  copy  the  date  in  the  colophon  was 
altered  to  read  '1440'  instead  of '1465'.  This  spurious  change  has  since  been  removed, 
leaving  behind  faint  signs  of  erasure. 

Provenance:  Samuel  Engel,  of  Berne,  1743;  Dresden,  Konigliche  Bibliothek;  Willis 
Vickery;  Raymond  and  Elizabeth  Hartz,  sale  Sotheby's  New  York,  12  December  1991,  lot 
163 

References:  HCR  5238;  GW  6921;  BMC  i  23;  De  Ricci,  Mayence,  84:32 

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!confueuimus:tuanos  tamenCai  He 
[rent  uoluntas  cdmouit  utderatione 
cdfcnberemus:neauc  tua  caufa  noluide:aut 
nos  fugilTe laborem  pu  tares,  <S<:eo  ftudiofms  hoc  ne' 
gociu  fufcepimus  cj>  te  no  fie  caufa  ueliecognoiceu- 
rhetoricam  ftelligebamus.Non  efm  parum  iru<flus 
hab&:  copia  dicendi  dt  cdmodiras  orationis;ii  recfta 
mtelligecia  &  diffinica  afmi  moderatione  gaberneu 
Quas  ob  res  ilia  qua:  grazci  fcnptores  fanis  arroganx 
caufa  fibi  affupfere  reliquimus.Nam  lili  ne  parurri 
multa  fciffe  uiderent":ea  conquifiueru  c  qux  nihii  ad 
propofitum  attmcbant:uc  ars  difficilior  cognitu  ui' 
deretur,Nos  autemeaqux  putauimus  ad  ranoneni 
dicedi  pertmere  fumpfimus.Non  efm  fpe  quccftus 
aut  gloria  co'moti  uefmus  ad  fcnbendu  queadmoin 
cxten :  fed  ut  induftna  noftra  tux  morem  gcramus 
uoluntati.Nunc  ne  nimiu  longa  fumatur  orauo  de 
re  dicere  fcipiemus.Sed  fi  te  illud  unu  monuenmus 
artem  fine  afTiduitate  dicendi  non  multum  mu.ue: 
ut  ftelligas  hac  prxceptiofs  ronem  ad  exercuaaoeni 
accommodan  oportere . 

(  De  Oratoris  Offiao  . 
kRatons  oflicium  eftde  his  rebus  pofle  ciicf-rr: 
res  ad  ufum  ciuilem  monbus  &  Icgibus 


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40  Cicero,  Marcus  Tullius.  Rhetorica  nova  ad  Herennium  ([De  inventione]  Rhetorica  vetus, 
edited  by  Omnibonus  Leonicenus).  Venice:  Nicolaus  Jenson,  1470 

FIRST  EDITION,  Royal  quarto  in  half  sheets  (254  x  183mm.),  138  leaves,  30  lines,  Roman 
letter,  5-  and  6-line  initials  in  gold  on  coloured  panels,  the  first  with  white-vine  border 
ornament,  the  others  either  on  blue-red-green  white-vine  grounds,  or  on  single-colour 
grounds  with  gold  floral  filigree,  2-line  initials  and  paragraph-marks  alternately  in  red  and 
blue,  eighteenth-century  English  diced  Russia,  gilt  dentelle  border,  spine  gilt,  marbled 
endpapers,  cloth  box  and  chemise,  a  few  early  manuscript  notes  in  margins,  earlier  vellum 
flyleaves  bound  in,  first  page  stained  and  with  a  vellum  repair  in  lower  margin,  a  single 
wormhole  running  through  text  of  last  11  leaves,  rebacked  retaining  original  spine 

FIRST  EDITIONS  OF  BOTH  TEXTS.  Although  many  incunable  catalogues  treat  the  two  texts 
as  separate  editions,  BMC  is  in  fact  correct  to  consider  this  as  a  single  edition.  The  titles 
Rhetorica  vetus  and  Rhetorica  nova,  used  in  Jenson's  edition,  were  given  to  these  works  in 
the  Middle  Ages.  The  anonymous  Rhetorica  ad  Herennium,  composed  c.  86-82  BC,  is 
addressed  to  the  unidentified  C.  Herennius.  Neither  Quintilian's  assignment  of 
authorship  to  Cornificius,  nor  the  medieval  assignment  to  Cicero  is  now  accepted.  The 
Rhetorica  vetus,  or  De  inventione,  a  treatise  on  some  techniques  of  rhetorical  argument,  is 
one  of  Cicero's  earliest  extant  writings  and  bears  a  close  resemblance  in  parts  to  the 
Rhetorica  ad  Herennium. 

To  the  humanist  of  the  fifteenth  century  every  word  of  Cicero,  and  even  some  with  which 
like  the  Rhetorica  ad  Herennium  he  had  no  connection  at  all,  was  sacred,  to  be  read, 
copied,  commented  upon,  and  ultimately  printed.  His  importance  as  the  master  of  Latin 
prose  in  every  style,  rhetorical,  oratorical,  epistolary  and  philosophical  (which  in  some 
ways  he  created)  has  at  no  time  been  other  than  admired  and  copied,  and  this  was  still 
true  for  schoolboys  in  England  in  the  1950s.  The  De  inventione  and  the  spurious 
Rhetorica  ad  Herennium  were  closely  linked.  Various  manuscripts,  some  incomplete, 


survive. 


In  the  fifteenth  century  printed  texts  of  Cicero  were  a  lucrative  item,  something  which 
Jenson  quickly  realised:  his  first  two  books  were  editions  of  Cicero,  although  he  was  not 
the  first  to  print  many  texts.  The  printing  of  Cicero's  works  followed  on  the  literally 
hundreds  of  manuscripts  from  the  fourteenth  and  fifteenth  centuries  which  were  in 
circulation.  By  1500  over  three  hundred  editions  of  different  works  or  groups  of  works 
had  been  printed. 

Jenson  chose  his  editor  wisely.  Ognibene  da  Lonigo  was  a  humanist  and  educator  of  great 
learning  'quern  dat  utraque  lingua  patrem',  as  the  verses  of  the  colophon  state.  Himself  a 
pupil  of  the  famous  educator  Vittorino  da  Feltre,  he  taught  at  Treviso  and  Mantua,  and  in 
1443  was  made  public  preceptor  at  Vicenza,  where  he  remained  until  1493  attracting 
students  from  all  over  Italy.  He  edited  a  number  of  texts  for  Jenson. 

Jenson's  entry  onto  the  Venetian  market  came  in  1470,  when  he  printed  four  editions.  In 
1471  he  increased  this  to  18.  The  beauty  of  his  type  and  layout  of  his  books  have  been 
much  admired  from  the  outset.  Apart  from  Gutenberg  and  (in  the  Anglo-Saxon  world) 
Caxton,  Jenson  is  probably  the  only  fifteenth-century  printer  generally  known,  and  that 
by  virtue  of  his  excellence  in  type.  The  partnership  of  editor  and  printer  is  elegantly  made 
in  elegiacs  preceding  the  explicit: 

Emendata  manu  sunt  exemplaria  docta 

Omniboni:  quern  dat  utraque  lingua  patrem. 

Haec  eadem  lenson  ueneta  Nicolaus  in  urbe 

Formauit:  Mauro  sub  duce  Christoforo. 


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The  deluxe  book  market  in  printed  books  demanded  from  the  outset  that  copies  be 
printed  on  vellum,  a  tradition  revived  by  the  Kelmscott  and  Ashendene  presses,  although 
it  had  never  completely  died  out.  Jenson  printed  a  number  of  both  secular  and 
ecclesiastical  texts  on  vellum,  including  other  works  by  Cicero  (Somnium  Scipionis 
Epistolae  familiares  (2  editions)  and  the  Epistolae  adBmtum).  Vellum  dedication  copies 
were  also  printed  for  the  dedicatees  or  progenitors  of  works,  and  sometimes  were 
elaborately  decorated  (the  marvellous  Douce  copy  of  the  Jenson  1476  Pliny,  decorated  for 
Filippo  Strozzi  is  a  famous  example;  Douce  310  in  the  Bodleian  Library,  Oxford;  there 
are  other  similar  copies,  e.g.  that  at  Holkham). 

In  the  eighteenth  century  the  great  collectors,  beginning  with  Lord  Harley,  sought  out 
vellum  copies:  he  possessed  (1743  sale  catalogue)  210  editions;  Gaignat  had  98;  the  due 
de  la  Valliere  176.  The  growth  of  printing  on  vellum  manifested  in  France  in  the  late 
eighteenth  and  early  nineteenth  century  means  that  whereas  in  the  case  of  Harley,  the 
books  printed  on  vellum  are  early  books,  the  highest  score  of  Van  Praet's  contemporaries, 
that  of  A.A.  Renouard,  included  a  large  number  of  contemporary  items,  some  published 
by  Renouard  himself.  Lord  Spencer,  the  great  English  bibliophile,  possessed  some  108 
vellum  copies.  The  British  Library  has  today  178  incunabula  printed  on  vellum,  and 
about  twice  that  number  for  the  sixteenth  century  (a  number  swollen  by  the  production 
of  liturgical  books). 

There  seems  to  be  some  confusion  as  to  how  many  copies  printed  on  vellum  exist  today 
of  the  two  texts  here  printed.  Van  Praet  lists  seven  (Paris  BNF,  Paris  St.  Gen.  (with  initials 
in  gold  and  colours),  Parma,  Vienna,  Upsala,  one  belonging  to  the  chevalier  Bartolini  at 
Udine,  and  Blenheim.)  ISTC  however  lists  only  four  on  vellum  (BNF,  Vienna,  Upsala 
(lacking  ff.  67-70),  and  Washington  LC  Rosenwald  Collection  213:  this  last  the  erstwhile 
Sunderland/Blenheim  copy,  sold  in  1881  (lot  2887)  bound  in  French  red  morocco  'with 
the  device  of  the  sun'  and  bought  by  Robert  Hoe  (Vision  of  a  collector,  p.  29;  it  was  lot  742 
in  the  Hoe  sale,  where  the  binding  is  described.) 

Copies  at  the  Bibl.  St.  Genevieve  and  that  at  Parma  are  listed  in  ISTC  but  not  as  vellum 
copies,  although  that  at  Parma  is.  This  copy,  listed  in  GW  under  its  previous  location  at 
Chatsworth,  is  the  sixth  copy  which  can  be  physically  attested.  The  binding  is  an  early 
eighteenth-century  English  russia  binding  (for  the  introduction  of  Russia  leather  into 
binding  in  England  see  G.  Pollard  'Changes  in  the  style  of  bookbinding,  1550-1830'  in 
The  Library  5th  series  XI  (1956)  pp.  81-82)  probably  dating  from  the  1720s  or  1730s. 
The  decorative  border  resembles  that  on  the  presentation  copies  of  Burnet's  De  statu 
mortuorum  et  resurgentium  (and  other  works  by  Burnet)  in  various  English  libraries.  THIS 
MAGNIFICENT  BOOK  therefore  was  clearly  in  England  at  this  period  ,  when  the  Sunderland 
library  was  created,  although  when  it  was  acquired  for  Chatsworth  we  do  not  know  (is  it 
from  Thomas  Dampier's  celebrated  collection  acquired  en  bloc  by  the  sixth  Duke?). 

Provenance:  Orandius  Jacobonius,  of  Terni,  with  early  inscription  on  vellum  flyleaf; 
Dukes  of  Devonshire,  with  Chatsworth  bookplate;  sale  Christie's,  6  June  1974,  lot  8;  H. 
Bradley  Martin,  with  bookplate,  sale  Sotheby's  New  York,  ix,  14  June  1990,  lot  3349 

References:  H  *5057;  GW  6733  &  6709;  BMC  v  166;  Goff  C672  &  644;  Van  Praet, 
Velins  du  roi,  iv,  no.  3 1 

£200,000-300,000 
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41  Cicero,  Marcus  Tullius.  Tusculanae  quaestiones.  Venice:  Nicolaus  Jenson,  1472 

Royal  4°  in  half-sheets  (271  x  183mm.),  87  leaves  (of  88,  without  the  initial  blank  leaf), 
33  lines,  Roman  and  Greek  type,  6-line  initial  spaces,  illuminated  by  the  Putti  Master 
with  5  historiated  chapter  initials  and  a  frontispiece  armorial  (Priuli  arms)  in  brown  ink 
and  grey  and  blue  wash  (camaieu  gris),  early  eighteenth-century  English  red  morocco  gilt, 
narrow  gilt  border,  small  fleuron  at  corners,  spine  gilt  in  compartments,  edges  gilt, 
marbled  endpapers,  modern  quarter  morocco  box,  a  few  early  manuscript  notes  in 
margins,  the  first  page  and  several  other  pages  with  a  few  spots  and  stains,  joints  and  corners 
slightly  rubbed 

Cicero's  Tusculan  Disputations  'predominantly  a  school  text  bearing  on  Platonic 
cosmology',  and  often  quoted  from  the  tenth  century  in  glosses  on  the  commentary  on 
the  Somnium  Scipionisof  Macrobius  (Richard  Rouse  in  L.  D.  Reynolds,  Texts  and 
Transmission,  (1983)  p.  135)  were  well  known  in  the  Middle  Ages.  In  this  text  Cicero 
writes  of 'the  problems  of  the  psychology  of  the  happy  life:  death,  grief,  pain,  fear,  passion 
and  other  mental  disorders,  and  of  what  is  essential  for  happiness. . .  He  writes  here  with  a 
passionate  intensity  and  lyrical  beauty'  (OCD3  (1996)  p.  1563). 

The  relationship  between  Jenson  and  the  printer  and  the  Putti  Master  was  close:  the 
printed  books  listed  by  Lilian  Armstrong,  are  almost  all  printed  either  by  Wendelinus  de 
Spira  or  Jenson  in  Venice.  It  appears  that  the  decoration  was  organised  by  the  printer,  not 
by  the  client.  Some  books  clearly  were  obvious  candidates  for  decoration,  e.g.  the  1472 
Pliny  printed  by  Jenson,  of  which  several  copies  are  extant,  and  the  Livy  of  1470.  For  the 
most  part  the  works  are  in  Latin,  but  there  are  two  editions  of  works  by  Petrarch  in  Italian 
(Armstrong  nos.  8,  21-22),  in  one  of  which  occurs  the  motif  of  the  Cupid  riding  a 
dolphin,  which  is  found  in  the  present  work.  The  books  are  to  be  found  in  many  libraries, 
but  copies  in  private  hands  are  most  unusual:  a  copy  of  this  edition  of  the  Tusculan 
Disputations,  printed  on  vellum,  which  is  atTreviso,  has  the  arms  of  the  Donado  or 
Dona  family  of  Venice. 

The  provenance  of  this  copy  is  immensely  distinguished.  Originally  it  was  decorated  for  a 
member  of  the  Priuli,  a  distinguished  family  in  Venice,  that  owned  a  number  of  decorated 
books  from  the  Jenson  shop,  e.g.  the  Columella  of  1472  (which  has  passed  through  the 
rooms  several  times  since  1978)  and  the  Sallust  of  1474.  It  contains  some  early 
annotations  of  a  fairly  basic  nature.  By  the  early  eighteenth  century  it  belonged  to  the 
Earl  of  Pembroke,  the  celebrated  English  collector,  of  whom  Pope  wrote  in  Of  Taste:  an 
epistle  to  the  Earl  of  Burlington  (1731): 

Artists  must  chuse  his  Pictures,  Music,  Meats: 

He  buys  for  Topham,  Drawings  and  Designs, 

For  Pembroke  Statues,  dirty  Gods,  and  Coins, 

Rare  monkish  manuscripts  for  Hearne  alone, 

And  books  for  Mead,  and  Butterflies  for  Sloane. 


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Pembroke,  who  enjoyed  considerable  public  office  in  England  in  the  reigns  of  William 
and  Mary,  Queen  Anne  and  George  I,  but  was  also  a  man  of  scientific  interests  and  tastes. 
He  was  president  of  the  Royal  Society  1689-90,  and  as  well  as  his  statuary,  had  as  well  a 
distinguished  library.  It  then  passed  to  the  friend  of  William  Morris,  and  great  collector, 
Charles  Fairfax  Murray  on  whose  death  in  1918  it  passed  to  Mr.  C.  S.  Ascherson  (who 
also  owned  the  Columella  mentioned  above),  and  thence  to  the  great  collector  of 
incunabula,  bindings  and  sale  catalogues  Mr.  Alfred  Ehrman.  It  subsequently  belonged  to 
the  American  collector  George  Abrams,  at  whose  sale  it  was  acquired  by  Mr.  Ritman  in 
1989. 

Of  volumes  decorated  by  the  Putti  Master  only  this  volume  and  the  magnificent  copy, 
printed  on  vellum,  of  the  1471  of  Quintilian  Institutiones  oratoriae  (lot  9  in  the  Garden 
sale,  1989),  have  appeared  at  auction  in  the  last  thirty  years. 

The  present  edition  is  the  second  or  third  of  this  text,  preceded  by  Ulrich  Han's  1469 
Rome  edition  (Goff  C630)  and  possibly  the  undated  Paris  edition  of  Gering,  Crantz  and 
Friburger  (Goff  C632).  In  the  present  copy  the  last  word  of  fol.  45  is  in  its  corrected  state 
uoluptater,  in  most  copies  it  is  incorrectly  set  as  uoluptatem.  GW  misdescribes  the  format 
as  folio. 

Provenance:  Priuli,  with  illuminated  arms;  Thomas  Herbert,  8th  Earl  of  Pembroke,  with  a 
Pembroke  binding  and  shelfmarks  (sale  in  our  rooms,  25  June  1914,  lot  67);  Charles 
Fairfax  Murray  (sale  Christie's,  18  March  1918,  lot  182);  C.S.  Ascherson,  with  bookplate; 
Albert  Ehrman,  Broxbourne  Library,  with  bookplate  (sale  in  our  rooms,  ii,  8  May  1978, 
lot  632);  George  Abrams,  with  bookplate  (sale  in  our  rooms,  16  November  1989,  lot  37) 

References:  H  *5313;  GW  6890;  BMC  v  171;  Goff  C631;  Lilian  Armstrong,  Renaissance 
Miniature  Painters  &  Classical  Imagery,  1 98 1 ,  no.  19 

£200,000-300,000 
€323,000-485,000 


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rapuifTe  cUcuntur  :  excipient  te :  &  quo  uelis  perferent. 
omnem  omittas  timorem.Sic  urgentibus  afperis  &  odio  - 
fis  dolonbus  :  fi  tann  non  fmt:  ut  fercndi  fint :  quo  fit 
cofugiendu  uides.r-Lec  fere  hoc  teporeputauieffediccn' 
da.Sed  tu  fortafTe  in.  fententia  pmanes.  A.Mmime  uero: 
meqj  biduo  duarum  rerum:quasmaximetimeba:fpero 
libcratum  metu «  M.Cras  ergo  ad  clepfydram  :  ficenim. 
diximus<fed  ttbi  hoc  uideo  no  poflfedeben.  A.Ita  prorfus, 
*M,Etillud  quidem  ate  mendiem;  A.Hoc  code  tempore, 
*M*Sic  faciemus:tuifqj  optimis  obfequemur  ftudiis, 

MARCI  TVLLII  CICERONIS  TVSCVLAx 
NARVM  QVAESTIONVM  LIBER  TERTIVS. 

^^  Vidnam  effe  Brute  caufae  putemtcur 

|  cum  conftemus  ex  ammo  6C  corpora: 

corporis  curadi  tuendiqj  caufa  quasfita 

fit  ars  eius  atqj  utihtas  deo^  immorta/ 

;  lium  inuentiom  confecrata:animi  aute 

medicina :  ncc  tarn  defidcrata  fit:ateq 

inucntamec  tarn  culta  pofteaq  cognita  efttnec  ca  mulcts 

grata  &  probata:plunbusetiamfufpcdad:muifa  r"An  9 

corporis  grauttatem  &:  dolorem  ammo  mdicamus:animi 

morbum  corpore  non  fenrimusr'Ita  fit  ut  animus  defc 

ipfe  tumiudicet:cumid  ipfum:quodiudicatur:ajcrrotet. 

Quod  fi  tales  nos  natura  genui(Tet:ut  ea  ipfa  mtueri:^ 

perfpicereteademqj  optima  duce  curfum  mtx  conficere 

poffemus:haud  erat  fane:quod  quifq  ratione  ac  doclrina 

reqreretrcu  nat'a  fufficeret.Nuc  puulos  nobis  dedit  igni/ 

culosrquos  celeriter  malis  monbus  opimdibufqj  denraua' 

tis  fie  extiguimustutnufqnat"^  lumeappareat.Sut  cnf 

ingem'is  noftris  femina  innata  utrtutu:qu2efiadolefcefe 

liceretn'pfa  nos  ad  beatam  uitam  natura  perducerer.Nuc 


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42  Conrad  von  Megenberg.  Das  Buch  der  Natur.  Augsburg:  Anton  Sorg,  24  July  1482 

Chancery  2°  (277  x  192mm.),  240  leaves,  35  lines,  Gothic  letter,  9-line  woodcut 
Maiblumen  initials,  1 2  full-page  woodcuts,  initials  and  woodcuts  all  coloured  by  a 
contemporary  hand,  in  contemporary  blind-stamped  calf  over  wooden  boards,  outer 
border  of  upper  cover  composed  of  a  repeated  large  rosette,  border  of  lower  cover 
composed  of  a  repeated  large  palmette,  central  panels  filled  with  a  repeated  artichoke 
tool,  spine  decorated  with  palmette  tool,  modern  morocco  slipcase,  fol.  3  supplied  from  a 
shorter  copy  and  bound  before  fol.  2,  short  tear  in  text  offos.  177  and  234  repaired  with 
partial  loss  of  a  few  letters,  a  few  repairs  in  margins,  a  few  small  wormholes  and  first  and  last 
few  leaves,  some  light  staining  mostly  in  margins,  lacking  2  clasps  and  catches,  lower  cover 
slightly  wormed 

The  fifth  edition  of  this  earliest  encyclopaedia  to  be  written  in  a  vernacular  language. 
Conrad  von  Megenberg  (1309-1374)  based  his  work  on  a  thirteenth-century  text 
attributed  to  Thomas  of  Cantimpre,  De  rerum  natura.  It  contains  sections  on  astronomy, 
meteorology,  human  anatomy,  zoology,  botany,  metals,  stones  and  monsters,  each  section 
headed  with  a  full-page  illustration.  The  first  edition,  printed  by  Bamler  in  1475,  was  the 
first  printed  book  to  contain  botanical  and  zoological  illustrations.  The  second  and  third 
editions,  of  1478  (Goff  C843)  and  1481  (Goff  C844),  were  also  from  the  press  of 
Bamler;  the  fourth  edition  was  printed  by  Johann  Schonsperger  exactly  two  months 
before  the  present  edition  (BSB-Ink  K-46). 

According  to  both  St.  Augustine  and  Berthold  von  Regensburg,  the  laity  possess  two 
books  of  Nature,  those  of  heaven  and  earth.  Conrad's  wish  in  this  work  was  to  teach 
knowledge  of  the  God  created  world  of  Nature  in  its  being  (res)  and  in  its  meaning 
(significatio) .  He  used  an  abbreviated  version  of  Thomas  von  Cantimpre,  and  a  number  of 
other  sources  (Isidore's  Etymologiae,  Avicenna'  s  Canon,  the  Physiologus  and  the  De 
vegetabilibus  of  Albertus  Magnus).  At  the  end  of  his  text  he  writes  that  he  has  'mer  dan 
daz  drittail  gemert  und  den  sin  erlaucht'  his  Latin  sources.  The  largest  space  is  in  fact 
given  to  the  tropological  and  moral  meanings  of  the  text,  and  the  various  different 
attributes  of  the  Clerus,  and  of  the  various  orders  of  society:  the  teacher  and  pupil  among 
them,  are  treated  at  length.  The  text  is  written  'for  his  good  friend',  probably  one  of  the 
community  of  the  Stephanschule  in  Vienna,  and  was  probably  meant,  like  so  many 
works,  as  a  useful  source  for  preachers. 

The  woodcuts  used  by  Sorg  are  close  copies  of  those  used  by  Bamler,  except  that  the 
portrait  of  St  Ulrich  at  the  head  of  the  chapter  on  stones  is  replaced  with  a  scene  of  a  Turk 
bringing  a  precious  stone  before  a  jeweller  at  his  bench. 

The  binding  is  from  Augsburg,  the  two  tools — palmette  and  rosette — differing  only  in 
minute  variations  of  size  from  Kyriss,  no.  90,  an  Augsburg  workshop. 

References:  H  *4045;  BMC  ii  349;  Goff  C845;  Schreiber  3782;  Klebs  300.5 

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itefhmoia  glonofa.&  coFeffioif  ueftre  bonore 
he  exulcancer  accepimuf  uc  in  mennfac  lau/ 
b  dibuf  ueftrif  nof  quoq:  parcicipefac  fotiof 
tcompucemuf  .  Nam  cu  nobif  ec  Ecclefia  una 
86  menfiundrata?  mdiuidua  cdcordta:  of 
non  facerdoftn  confacerdonf  futlaudibufranq  m  fmf  propruf 
graculecur'A.uc  que  Fracernicafn6  in  Pratru  gaudio  ubiq;  feret;.' 
Exprimi  fanf  non  pocefb  qca  ifbaexulrano  Fuertc  &:  qra  [encia: 
cum  de  uobif  profpera  U  Forna  comperifTemuf  .  ducem  reilfic  co/ 
FeflionifFratribuf  exntifie.  Sed  &J  conFeflionem  ducifdeFracrum 
confenflione  creuifle-ut  dum  precedif  ad  glonam  fecerifmu(cof 
glone  comicef.  &J  conFeHbrem  populum  fuafenfFierirdum  pnmuf 
paracufefpro  omnibuf  conFicen  .  ut  non  mueniamufquid  pnuf 
predicare  debeamuf.ucrum  ne  cuam  promptam  &r  Orabtlem  Fidem 
an  mfeparabilem  Fracrum  canratem.  Vircuf  illic  Epi  precedentif 
pubhcecomprobacaeffc-adunaciofequennr  Fraternitanf  ofVenfa 
eflr.du  apud  uofunuranimufs^  una  uox  e  Ecclefia  off  R-omana 
conFeflaeft.ClaruicFracrefcanfliini  Fidef  quamdeuobif  beatuf 
Apofboluf  predicauic.Hanclaudem  uircucif  &r  robonf  Firmicace 
lam  tune  in  fpmtu  preuidebac  8t  preconio  fiituroif  menca  uefhra 
conreOanf.-dum  parencef  (audac:Filiof  ;puocac.  dum  fie  unanimef 
dum  ficFortef  eOif  magna  86  cecenfFratnbuf  unanimiratifa:  For/ 
ticudinifexeplatribuifhf.Docuifhf  granditer  deu  ttmere-Xpo 
Firmicer  adberere.plebemfacerdoabufiungi.in  pfecutioe  Frarref 
a  Fracnbuf  n6  feparan  .  cocordia  fimul  mnc^am  umci  omnmo  no 
poffe.qutcqdfimul  pecicura  cuncHrifdeu  pacifpaciFiafexbibere. 
Profilierac  aduerfanuf  terrore  uiolenco  Xpi  caftra  curbare.fed 
quo  imperu  uenerac  eodem  impetu  pulfuf  eft  .  86  qtum  Formidmif 
86  cerronfacculic:rancuForntudmif  inuenir  86  robonf.  Suppla/ 
care  fe  iceru  crediderac  pofledei  (eruof:&;  uelucTyroef  86  rudef 
quafi  mmuf  paracof  8t  mmuf  cautof  folito  fuo  more  concucere  . 
Vnu  pmo  aggreflufuc  lupuf  ouc  fecernere  a  grege-'ut  accipiter 
columbam  ab  agmme  uolantium  feparare  tempcauerac.  Nam  cui 


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43  Cyprianus,  Saint.  Opera  (edited  by  Johannes  Andreae  Bussi,  bishop  of  Aleria).  Rome: 
Conrad  Sweynheym  and  Arnold  Pannartz,  in  the  house  ofPetrus  de  Maximo,  [before  26  July] 
1471 

FIRST  EDITION,  Median  2°  (306  x  224mm.),  184  leaves  (of  186,  without  first  and  last 
blank  leaves),  38  lines,  Roman  and  Greek  letter,  2-,  6-  and  7-line  initial  spaces,  7-line 
initials  on  fol.  5  recto  in  blue  with  red  penwork  decoration,  other  initials  in  red,  initial- 
strokes  in  yellow,  eighteenth-century  Italian  vellum,  gilt  spine,  marbled  endpapers,  edges 
stained  yellow,  extensive  early  manuscript  notes  in  m&rgms,  first  page  stained  and  other 
scattered  stains,  a  few  small  wormholes,  two  gouges  on  upper  cover 

FIRST  EDITION,  FROM  THE  LIBRARY  OF  AULUS  JANUS  PARRHASIUS  (1470-1  534),  editor  and 
commentator  of  many  classical  texts,  'the  most  informed  humanist  and  most  brilliant 
critic  of  his  age'  (R.  Sabbadini,  Le  scoperte  dei  codici  latini  e  greci,  1905,  159).  His 
extensive  library  of  classical  manuscripts  and  early  printed  editions  was  bequeathed  to 
Cardinal  Antonio  Seripandi  (1493-1563),  and  the  largest  portion  of  it  is  now  in  the 
National  Library,  Naples.  The  marginalia  are  probably  in  Parrhasius's  hand. 

Cyprian  (d.  258),  bishop  of  Carthage,  was  the  first  great  Christian  writer,  who  remained 
without  rival  until  Jerome  and  Augustine.  His  extant  writings  consist  of  some  eighty-one 
letters  and  several  important  treatises  including:  the  celebrated  De  ecclesiae  catholicae 

unitate;  an  exposition  of  the  Lord's  Prayer  De  oratione  dominica;  De  mortalitate,  composed 
during  the  plague  which  struck  Carthage  in  252;  and  two  popular  short  works,  De  bono 
patientie  and  De  zelo  &  livore,  written  during  the  controversy  over  the  rebaptism  of 
heretics.  The  edition  also  includes  a  number  of  pseudo-Cyprian  tracts;  the  final  text,  a 
fabulous  narration  of  how  King  Pepin  had  the  head  of  St  John  the  Baptist  translated  to 
Angers,  was  not  part  of  the  Cyprian  tradition  and  is  not  included  in  the  table  of  the 
preliminary  quire  (see  Socii  Bollandiani,  Bibliotheca  hagiographica  latina,  1898-1901,  no. 
4293,  and  Acta  sanctorum  (third  edition)  lunii  V,  650-652. 

Vindelinus  de  Spira's  Venice  edition  of  the  same  year  (Goff  C101  1)  was  reprinted  from 
this  edition,  whose  terminus  is  provided  by  the  death,  on  26  July  1471,  of  Pope  Paul  II, 
to  whom  the  work  is  dedicated.  In  his  dedication,  Giovanni  Andrea  Bussi,  who  edited 
almost  all  the  early  publications  of  Sweynheym  and  Pannartz  in  Rome,  states  that  he  was 
hard  at  work  in  preparing  for  press  Nicholas  de  Lyra's  Bible  commentary  (edition 
completed  18  November  1471  and  after,  Goff  Nl  31).  Sweynheym  and  Pannartz  were,  he 
says,  in  the  process  of  printing  the  Vulgate  Bible  (Goff  B535,  dedication  dated  15  March 
1471),  when  they  told  him  that  their  supply  of  Royal  paper  (carta  maior)  was  depleted 
and  asked  if  he  could  supply  some  work  for  smaller  paper,  so  that  their  workmen  would 
not  have  to  be  laid  off.  Such  information  suggests  that  GW  and  BMC's  dating  '[January 
or  February]  1471'  is  over-precisely  calculated. 

Provenance:  Aulus  Janus  Parrhasius,  by  bequest  to  Antonio  Seripandi,  with  inscription 
(see  above);  (Seripandi  bequeathed  his  library  to  the  monastery  of  S.  Giovanni  di 
Carbonara  in  Naples;  in  1718  the  monks,  following  a  'hint'  from  Vienna,  presented  their 
manuscripts  to  Emperor  Charles  VI;  they  were  returned  to  the  National  Library  in  Naples 
by  the  terms  of  the  Treaty  of  Saint  Germain,  1919);  monogram  FG  in  ink  at  foot  of  first 
page;  Albert  Ehrman,  Broxbourne  Library,  with  bookplate  and  note:  'Binding  damaged 
in  return  from  USA  1945'  (sale  in  our  rooms,  ii,  8  May  1978,  lot  525);  George  Abrams, 
with  bookplate  (sale  in  our  rooms,  16  November  1989,  lot  41) 

References:  H  *5896;  GW7883;  BMC  iv  12;  GoffClOlO 

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43  detail 


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co2de  famuli  tui  lumen  igaudith  oulcifllma 
fup  mei  ?  fauum  0:1  meo- f acra  eft  gf  a  tua  irt 
ar3fhmulitut'qua(ltbcfauru0mbuen6mibi 
ineffabile0oiuicia0/ipaupt3tematqjmiferi 
am  longeamecjcpellcno'  f  acta  eft  gfa  tua 
feruo  t  uo  refugiu  i  >JtU6 1  gio2iario  i  .ptecno 
v  "fr*  fpiritali0-plena  fuauitatic  i  lumine 


t  obfecrantc  vt  no0  ad  terribilem  il# 
lum  Diem  mdicij  pparemue/omem  follicitu  ? 
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la  bo^  nobi0  pjodeflc  porerit  nifi  couerfario 
fancra  i  bonaopjaquebincoetulcnmuono* 
bifcum*  '2rerro2cquoq5nobi0incut(enf  pjo* 
^  prer  ntanifeftarionem  co:am  iudicc  omnium 
/  quebicoccultafunt/quodapta  fiinilitudine 
l    ftcclarat* 


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meum  licer  mdignilTimi  i  pctono  apuir^Huc 
quo  fuftinebit  Imgua  mea/  Kt  non  te  fin^ulie 


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queiugttcrfluunritt  pcctozcbumilitatl  mec 
pleneoulcedmei  omi  gratia  rpecialtf-flMalll 
glo:iofo  nomini  tuo  onepajc  ccloal/qui  mibi 


•iCu  cinrcnu 

:  m3gniftco2  a  te^flo  ceffabit  ligua 
meacollaudare^tutctua/no  ceflabit  citba  - 
r  a  mea  pfonarc  fpiritalia  cannca  t  ua-  Dcfide 
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oicto  t  Cmo2tali  patri  tuo  co23m  cbcrubin  et 
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paradif!perfruen0'cum  fanctio  ommb'an* 


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fufcipite'T  femp.  menicroteconfii 


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i  no0  tumo:e  elariom0  1  n  fi  JIIHI  r.  nolcn  tco  in 
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fratrc0  cbanffimi'Venite  p:ouciamu0  a  noB 
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geturmenonfatn  terrenio  ncgocij0»q2  om* 
niaterrena  ptrafcunt'Omia  oepercunt«om« 


. 

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ftto0/?  cogirationr0  ante  tribunal  tremendi 
iudicijoeferatf^Corremircitcoimeum/tre^ 
ne0  mei  refoluunt  /  quorienfcuiiqj  recogito 
q^rcud-iiidcfinf  ccisir.irocf.i  finoiico  arq? 
ncruo  iifun  nriiKhaj'/C'i'.-die  em  fiir.o:  eric 
fratre0oilecrimmi'grandi0  trcmo2  o  amid 
tncy^uioemnotimcat'autq'ecq'noptre 
milcat  i  lamented  ac  lugcatbec-  eft  ibt  otnia 
maniftftunf  »que  15  i  occulto  i  teneb2t0  gefta 
funfiontelligite  fratrco  mei  15  qtf  vo5  oico* 
ipfiderateetcpluqjJvobobvfamitelligen* 
tia  ,pfero«2lrb02e0  fructifere  rge  fuo  pmu  in 

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cficp  in  13  fccttlo  qfun  rpefuo  occult  c  mrnnfe 
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105 


Ephraim  Syrus.  Libri  sancti  Effrem  de  compunctione  cordis  judicio  dei  &  resure.  &c. 
beatitudine  anime  penitentia  luctamine  spiritali  die  judicij.  [Freiburg  im  Breisgau:  Kilian 
Fischer,  not  after  1491] 

Chancery  2°  (315  x  220mm.),  20  leaves,  double  column,  52  lines  and  headline,  Gothic 
letter,  rubricated,  4-line  initials  supplied  in  red  (with  guide-letters),  modern  vellum 
binding 

Ephrem  the  Syrian  (c.  306-373  AD)  wrote  his  many  works  in  verse.  His  fame  and 
influence  as  both  hymnodist  and  model  of  the  monastic  life  spread  throughout  the 
church  both  East  and  West,  and  led  to  a  huge  body  of  work  in  a  wide  variety  of  languages 
being  attributed  to  him. 

He  wrote  in  Syriac  but  early  translations  into  Greek  were  made,  and  from  these  Latin 
versions.  The  text  here  printed  is  the  old  Latin  version.  Ambrogio  Traversari  was  the 
translator  of  a  group  of  sermons  published  in  1481  and  subsequently  reprinted,  and  this 
formed  the  basis  of  a  French  translation  by  Pierre  Cueuret  published  c.  1500  (GW  9335). 

A  manuscript  in  the  Huntington  Library  (HM  1068)  contains  these  six  chapters  in  a 
form  generally  the  same  as  this  printed  edition,  the  major  difference  being  that  in  the 
manuscript  the  end  of  the  first  section  is  given  in  a  shortened  version. 

References:  H  6598;  GW  9334;  BMC  iii  693;  GofTE44 

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45  Euclid.  Elementa  [Latin]  (in  the  translation  of  Adelard  of  Bath,  with  commentary  by 
Campanus  of  Novara).  Venice:  Erhard  Ratdolt,  25  May  1482 

Super-Chancery  2°  (305  x  210mm.),  138  leaves,  45  lines,  Gothic  letter,  3-part  white-on- 
black  ornamental  border,  white-on-black  initials,  over  500  typemetal  geometrical 
diagrams,  contemporary  South  German  binding  of  tawed  pigskin  over  wooden  boards, 
blind-stamped  with  pineapple  tools  within  leafy  lattice  on  front  cover,  rose  and  small 
campion-like  flower  tool  within  a  border  of  'Maria  hilf '  scrolls  on  lower  cover,  clasps 
intact,  guards  from  a  fifteenth-century  German  liturgical  manuscript,  modern  morocco- 
backed  slip-case,  a  few  tiny  and  insignificant  wormholes  in  some  margins  and  on  spine  of 
binding 

A  SUPERB  COPY  OF  THE  FIRST  EDITION  OF  EUCLID  IN  LATIN  (the  Greek  text  was  published 
in  1533),  and  the  first  appearance  of  Euclid  in  print. 

Euclid's  fortuna  in  the  Middle  Ages,  of  which  this  edition  formed  the  textual  summation, 
is  based  on  translations  made,  not  from  the  Greek,  but  from  the  Arabic,  of  which  that  by 
Adelard  of  Bath,  made  in  the  early  twelfth  century,  subsequently  used  by  Roger  Bacon, 
and  surviving  in  a  number  of  manuscripts,  is  here  printed.  Adelard  of  Bath  is  an 
enormously  important  figure,  and  one  little-known  other  than  to  specialists.  He 
introduced  into  western  Europe  the  notions  and  terms  of  sine  and  tangent. 

In  his  dedication  to  the  Doge,  Ratdolt  speaks  of  the  problem  of  printing  Euclid,  and 
more  particularly  the  diagrams  in  the  text:  how  there  are  many  printed  books,  but  this 
problem  of  diagrams  is  difficult  of  resolution.  This  is  not  an  idle  remark,  and  it  is 
generally  thought  today  that  these  sharp,  clean  diagrans  were  achieved  by  means  of  type 
metal,  not  woodcuts. 

Provenance:  arms  emblazoned  on  recto  of  a2  (gules,  a  fess  between  three  stars,  or);  Ph. 
Werner  'dono  accepi  a  D.D.  Joh:  Ludov.  Eberi  heredibus  8  May  1670';  Robert 
Honeyman  IV,  with  bookplate  (sale  in  our  rooms,  ii,  30  April  1979,  lot  970);  the  Garden 
Ltd.,  with  bookplate  (sale,  Sotheby's  New  York,  9  November  1989,  lot  26) 

References:  HC  6693*;  GW  9428;  Klebs  383.1;  Stanford  1A;  Sander  2605;  Goff  E-l  13; 
7WM25;see  also  M.  Clagett  'The  medieval  translations  from  the  Arabic  of  the  Elements' 
in  Isis44  (1953)16-42;  J.E.  Murdoch  'The  medieval  Euclid',  in  Revue  de  Synthese,  3rd 
series,  49-52  (1968)  67-94;  C.  Burnett.  Adelard  of  Bath.  London:  Warburg  Institute, 
1987  pp.  55-68  (by  M.  Folkerts);  J.H.L.  Busard  'Lateinische  Euklidiibersetzungen  und 
Bearbeitungen  aus  dem  12.  und  13.  Jahrhundert'  in  Mathematische  Probleme  im 
Mittelalter,  ed.  M.  Folkerts  (Wolfenbutteler  Mittelater-Studien  10),  Wiesbaden,  1996 
139-157 

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Incipit  Liber  Htftone  ecclefiaftice  Eufebii  c^fanefis  qua 
beatus  iLuffmus  pre fbiter  de  grpco  in  latmum  tranftukt. 

Inciptt  Prologus  eiufdemK-ufftni. 

ERJTOR.VM  DICVNT  ESSE 
medicorum  ubi  imminere  urbibus  uel 
regionibus  generales  uiderint  morbos 
proutdere  ahq 3"  medicameti  uel  pocult 
genus.quibuspremumti  homines  ab  im 
minenti  defendanturexitio.  Quodtu 
quocp  uenerade  pater  cbromati  medicine  cheques  genus, 
tempore  quo  difruptis  itahae  clauftns  balancbo  duce  go ' 
tborum  fe  peftifer  morbus  infudtt.dc  agros  arraenta  uiros 
longe  latecp  uaftauit.popuhs  ttbi  a  deo  commiflfis  ferahs  ex 
itii  ahquod  remedium  queras.per  quod  egrp  mentes  ab  in 
gruentismalicogitatione  fubtra<5lp  mehonbus  occupate 
ftudus  teneretur-Iniungis  mtbi  ut  ecclefiafttca  bjftonam 
qua  utrerudittflimus  Eufebms  cffarienfis  greco  fertnone 
confcnpferat  in  latmum  uerterem.Cuius  lecftione  animus 
audientiu  uincftusdum  notitiam  return  geftarum  autdius 
peteret  obliuionem  quodammodo  malorum  qup  gererent 
acciperet.  Aquoego  onere  cu  excufare  me  uellem  ut^ote 
inferior  Sc  impar  &  qui  in  tam  multis  annis  ufum  latmi  fer 
monis  amiferim  Cofideraui  que  no  abf^  altquo  apoftolice 
inftitutionis  ordine  nobis  ifta  pciperes.  Nam  6c  cum  do 
minus  altquando  efunentibus  in  defer  to  audttoru  turbis 
dixtffet  ad  apoftolos  date  eis  uos  manducare,  Pbihppus 
unus  ex  apoftohs  intelltges  eo  magis  fplendefcerediuine 
uirtutis  inftgnia.fi  mimmoy,  fuoru^  minifteriis  explerent 
non ^tulit  panes  apoftohcc  recoditos  pere  fedpuerulum 
adelte  dtcit  babente  quto^  panes  Sc  duos  ptfces  que  uere/ 
cunde  excufans  adiecit.  Sed  bee  cjd  funt  iter  tantosr'quo 
magis  in  anguftis  optbus  fee  defperatis  clara  fieret  dtuina 


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46  Eusebius  Caesariensis.  Historia  ecclesiastica  (translated  byTyrannius  Rufinus).  Rome: 
Johannes  Philippus  de  Lignamine,  15  May  1476 

Median  2°  (326  x  218mm.),  219  leaves  (of  220,  without  initial  blank  leaf),  33  lines, 
Roman  letter,  2-,  3-  and  6-line  initial  spaces,  that  on  fol.  2  recto  supplied  in  yellow  and 
brown  pen,  first  leaf  ruled  in  red,  eighteenth-century  vellum,  modern  morocco-backed 
slipcase  and  chemise,  contemporary  manuscript  foliation  and  headlines  and  some  other 
annotations,  small  repairs  in  text  of  first  3  leaves  with  a  few  letters  supplied  in  pen  facsimile, 
long  tear  in  margin  affinal  leaf  repaired,  several  other  repairs  in  margins,  some  staining  in 
margins 

The  third  edition  of  Eusebius's  monumental  history  of  the  early  church,  preceded  by 
editions  printed  at  Utrecht  and  Strassburg,  in  1474  and  c.  1475-80  respectively  (GofF 
E124  &  125).  The  original  Greek  text  was  first  printed  by  Robert  Estienne  at  Paris  in 
1544. 

There  are  two  issues  of  the  present  edition,  the  first  with  a  dedication  to  Pope  Sixtus  IV, 
the  second  as  here  dedicated  to  Cardinal  d'Estouteville  with  an  entirely  reset  first  quire. 

References:  HC  *6710;  GW  9436;  BMC  iv  34  ;  Goff  El 26 

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EVSEBQCAESARIENSIS  EPISCOPICHRONICON  ID 
EST  TEMPORVM  BREVIARIVM  INCIPIT  FOELICI/ 
TERvQVEM  HlERONKMVS  PRAESBITER  DIVING 
EIVS INGENIO  LATINVM  FACERE  CVRAVIT:ET  VS 
Q VE  IN  Valentc  Gdarem  Romano  Adiecit  Eloquio » Quc  ET 
Prolper  delude  Matne*  palmeri'  Qui  ca  qu£  cofecuta  (ut  adiicere 
curauere  eidepoftpofiti  fubfequunf,  At  primfl  Hieronymi  in  bui* 
codicis  aliquado  adoriptores  utarcbetypusdefaibaf  adiurati^e 
VERBADIYI UTTBRARVM  PRINCIPIS  H1ERONKMI 


Diuro  tc  quicuc^  bos  defcripleris  iibros 
E  dominu  noftnl  iefu  cbriftu  et  gloriolu 
eius  aducnru : in  quo  u cnict  iudi care  ui 
uos  &:  mortuos  ut  coferas  quod  fcripfe 
ris  &:  emedes  ad  exeplaria  ea  de  quib^ 
(cripieris  diligenter»Et  boc  adiuratiois 
genus  tranfcribas  &rtranfieras  in  cum 
codicem  quern  defcripleris* 

Cbronica  Eufebii  Hieronymi  bidpit» 

Prf&tio  Hicronyjni 

Vfebius  Hicronymus  Vinccntio  &:  Galieno  fuis 
Salutem*  Vetus  irte  diiertorum  mos  fuit  ut  exercen 
di  ingenii  caula  grecos  Iibros  latino  fermone  abfol 
ueret*  Et  quod  plus  I  (e  difficultatis  babet  poemata 
illuftrifluiroru  addita  metri  neceflitate  tranfferret, 

Vnde  &  nofter  Tulius  Platonis  integros  Iibros  ad 

uerbu  interpretatus  eft.Et  cu  Aratu  ia  Romanu  bexametris  uerfib? 
edidiflet  in  xenopbontis  economico  lufit  Jn  quo  opere  ita  i^pe  au 
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coferuet.  Significatu  eft  aliquid  unius  uerbi  proprietate  no  babeo 
meu  quoidefficia:cVdurnqugroirnplerefententia  longo  ambitu 

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47  Eusebius  Caesariensis.  Chronicon  (translated  by  Hieronymus;  with  additions  by  Prosper 
Aquitanus  [to  448],  Matthaeus  Palmerius  Florentinus  [to  1448]  and  Matthias  Palmerius 
Pisanus  [to  1481];  edited  by  Johannes  Lucilius  Santritter).  Venice:  Erhard  Ratdolt,  13 
September  1483 

Second  edition,  Median  4°  (218  x  155mm.),  180  leaves  (of  182,  without  blank  leaves  al 
and  xlO),  41  lines,  Roman  and  Gothic  letter,  6-,  8-  and  1 1-line  white-on-black  woodcut 
initials,  headings  on  a2  recto  printed  in  red,  tables  printed  in  red  and  black,  eighteenth- 
century  Italian  vellum,  mottled  edges,  occasional  early  manuscript  notes  in  margins,  small 
ivormhole  in  first  3  leaves  with  minimal  loss,  fore-margin  of  last  leaf  strengthened 

The  second  edition  of  Eusebius's  chronicle  of  world  history  down  to  the  year  225  consists 
largely  of  chronological  tables  with  short  historical  notices.  The  original  Greek  text  is  lost 
but  St  Jerome's  translations  of  the  'Canons',  or  tables,  survive. 

Eusebius's  Historia  ecclesiastica  is  at  the  root  of  all  Christian  historiography,  and  forms  the 
basis  of  all  chronology.  It  was  much  read  in  its  Latin  version,  even  although  the  Greek 
text  was  not  published  until  the  1 540s  in  Paris,  and  had  in  various  forms  circulated  from 
an  early  date  throughout  the  Christian  world:  part  of  the  text  is  known  in  an  Armenian 
version. 

Eusebius  followed  what  became  orthodox  Christian  teaching,  seeing  the  New  Testament 
and  the  figure  of  Christ  attested  in  the  Old  Testament.  Wisdom  -Sophia-Sapientia-  in  the 
OT  stands  for  Christ,  the  logos  of  St.  John's  gospel,  who  existed  from  all  eternity,  and 
who,  with  the  father,  formed  Adam.  The  whole  of  the  history  of  the  Jewish  people  as  told 
in  the  OT  is  a  preparation  for  Christ  and  the  Christian  Church,  something  Eusebius 
wrote  of  in  his  Praeparatio  evangelica. 

The  editio princeps,  printed  by  Philippus  de  Lavagnia  in  Milan  c.  1474  (Goff  El  16),  also 
contains  the  continuations  of  Prosper  of  Aquitaine  and  Matthaeus  Palmerius  of  Florence 
(as  far  as  1448),  while  those  of  Matthias  Palmerius  of  Pisa  (as  far  as  1481)  are  new  to  the 
present  edition.  They  include  the  famous  reference,  under  the  year  1457,  to  the  invention 
of  printing  by  Johann  Gutenberg  in  1440  solerti  ingenio  ('with  great  skill'),  a  phrase  which 
is  reused  by  Ratdolt  in  the  colophon  to  describe  himself. 

Footnote:  HC  (+Add)  *6717;  GW  9433;  BMC  v  287;  Goff  El  17;  Redgrave  36 

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THEORICA  MVSICE  FRANLHINI  GAIVRI 


48 

48  Gafurius,  Franchinus.  Theorica  musicae  (with  additions  by  Lancinus  Curtius).  Milan: 
Philippus  de  Mantegatiis,  Cassanus,  for  Johannes  Petrus  de  Lomatio,  15  December  1492 

Chancery  2°  (284  x  202mm.),  68  leaves,  38  lines,  Roman  letter,  3-,  4-,  5-  and  6-line 
initial  spaces  with  printed  guides,  woodcut  on  the  title-page  showing  a  cleric  (possibly 
Gafurius)  at  a  positive  organ  representing  gamuts,  four  full-page  woodcuts  (one  quartered 
showing  musical  instruments)  illustrating  Pythagorean  proportions,  1 3  woodcut 
diagrams  (one  on  a  musical  stave),  smaller  woodcuts  within  text,  modern  calf  ruled  and 
stamped  in  blind,  a  few  early  manuscript  annotations,  first  leaf  lightly  browned  and  with 
repair  at  inner  margin,  some  light  spotting 

THE  WORKS  OF  GAFURIO  ARE  THE  EARLIEST  AND  MOST  SIGNIFICANT  PRINTED 
CONTRIBUTIONS  TO  THE  DIFFUSION  OF  MUSIC  THEORY.  Gafurio  (1451-1522),  organist 
first  at  Lodi  Cathedral  and,  from  1484,  at  Milan  Cathedral,  was  the  most  important  of 
the  late  fifteenth-century  music  theorists.  The  present  work  was  his  earliest,  first  printed 
as  Theoricum  of  us  at  Naples  in  1480  (Goff  G5).  It  is  dedicated  to  Lodovico  Sforza,  and 
the  woodcut  of  an  organist  on  the  title-page  is  thought  to  be  a  portrait  of  Gafurio  himself 
(this  woodcut  was  also  used  in  the  1480  edition). 

The  Theorica  contains  his  interpretation  of  ancient  Greek  theory,  in  which  the  Boethian 
tradition  is  attractively  presented,  with  charming  illustrations  of  Pythagorean 
proportions.  Gafurio  made  important  changes  to  the  text  of  the  present  second  edition, 
which  is  a  more  sophisticated  text  than  the  earlier  edition,  drawing  as  it  does  on 
additional  sources  such  as  Aristides,  Quintilianus,  Ptolemy,  of  whom  he  had  translations 
made  especially  (Reese,  Music  in  the  Renaissance,  1959,  p.  180),  Bacchius,  Marsilio 
Ficino's  translation  of  Plato,  and  Aristotle.  Gafurius's  own  copy  of  the  Ficino  translation 
of  Plato,  Florence,  1484-85  (Goff  P771),  containing  his  notes,  is  in  the  Bibliotheca 
Philosophica  Hermetica. 

Provenance:  St  Michael's  College,  Tenbury  Wells  (sale  in  our  rooms,  21  November  1990, 
lot  339) 

References:  HCR  7406;  GW  10437;  BMC  vi  785;  Goff  G6;  Klebs  430.2;  Sander  2982; 
Kristeller,  Lombardische  Graphik,  161;  RISM,  Ecrits,  p.  343;  Hirsch  191 

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jpfutn  cumrecommenDatione  biimili  &  beuoea,  (turn 
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triuinum  natrium  nifi  fub  \x?lamme  fimilitu  trims  5i  figu 
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toe  noftre  rado  m  tam  cjtcctlend  (ucc  non  ftgitor.mfi  ea 
afpidat  psr  fimifctutrines&  ejtempla»!5?nbe  vitigemtu 
tec  vcrbii^t  febentes  in  fcenebzis  Si  hi  -pmbra  mc»tis 
ab  celeflia  eleuaret  m  eremptis  &  parabcfe  loqueba 
hir  eo  q?  foztius  moueant»atutriii8  autriantur*  firnrius 
retineantur*  &  a  terrems  mentcm  engant  aD  eterna  * 
t?t  augufthi?  attefiatwr*  Siua  \«ro  nofter  am'm^^pi 
tet  aa  oeleftia  hif;iarB»eo  q?  bdertef  narracombD  &  fa 
c^ozum  e^emplio*  ^bdrco  aD  glc»iam  5i  bonozem  om 
itipotenris  bei^Si  bcadfRme  wgntis  mams  eius^beati 
bonnirid  pris  mei»ac  bcatiflfime  marie  magt^alene*  f?ac 
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plaDa  aliqua  be  etermo  *  Latera  autem  l;ui?  fcale  Cut 
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49  Gobius,  Johannes.  Scala  coeli.  Lubeck:  [Lukas  Brandts],  1476 

FIRST  EDITION,  Chancery  2°  (276  x  207mm.),  242  leaves,  31  lines  and  headline,  Gothic 
letter,  3-  and  4-line  initial  spaces,  most  initials  supplied  in  red  outline,  initial-strokes  in 
red,  lower  board  of  contemporary  pink  blind-stamped  doeskin  over  wooden  boards, 
upper  board  replaced  with  nineteenth-century  half  calf  over  marbled  boards,  a  few  short 
tears  in  margins,  damp-staining  in  margins  of  last  few  leaves,  a  few  leaves  lightly  soiled, 
binding  worn,  lacking  metal  corner-  and  centre-pieces  and  hasp  on  lower  cover 

This  popular  collection  of  medieval  oriental  tales  consists  of  125  devotional  texts  taking 
themes  from  the  secular  and  spiritual  world.  It  also  contains  a  section  entitled  Femina, 
which  includes  an  abbreviated  version  of  the  Seven  Wise  Masters. 

References.-UC  9405;  GW  10944;  BMC  ii  551;  Goff  G310 

£10,000-15,000 
€16,200-24,300 


116 


50  Gregory  I,  Saint,  Pope.  Epistolae.  [Augsburg:  Giinther  Zainer,  not  after  19  March  1477] 

FIRST  EDITION,  Royal  2°  (409  x  275mm.),  164  leaves,  double  column,  59  lines  and 
headline,  Roman  and  Gothic  letter,  8-line  Maiblumen  woodcut  initials,  3-line  outline 
woodcut  initials,  headings  of  the  register  printed  in  red,  modern  brown  morocco,  several 
uncut  edges,  some  worming  in  first  few  leaves,  first  2  leaves  lightly  stained 

The  first  and  only  fifteenth-century  edition  of  Gregory  I's  letters.  The  book  appears  in 
Giinther  Zainer's  broadside  list  of  books  for  sale,  which  contains  publications  dated 
between  1471  and  1476  (K.  Burger,  Buchhandleranzeigen,  1907,  no.  20).  The  ex- 
Tegernsee  copy  contains  a  purchase  date  of  1477;  the  Wiirzburg  University  Library  copy 
has  a  purchase  date  of  19  March  1477;  and  the  Nakles  copy  (sale  Christie's  New  York,  17 
April  2000,  lot  42)  has  a  rubricator's  date  of  1477. 

A  mistake  in  type-page  makeup  on  folio  11/3  resulted  in  the  last  line  of  column  b  being 
placed  instead  at  the  foot  of  column  a;  this  has  been  corrected  in  manuscript  in  this  copy. 

Provenance:  Franciscans,  Eggenburg,  Lower  Austria,  with  deleted  seventeenth-century 
inscription;  Clifford  Rattey,  with  bookplate;  W.R.H.  Jeudwine,  with  bookplate  (sale 
London,  18  September  1984,  lot  14);  George  Abrams,  with  bookplate  (sale  in  our  rooms, 
16  November  1989,  lot  55) 

References:  H  *7991;  GW  1 1439;  BMC  ii  322;  Goff  G415 

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€16,200-24,300 


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Pars 


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Fo 


XLI 


Difficile  creoc  quia  ao  fancta  loca  fuiftis- 
patres  nuiltos  vioiftis.Nam  creoo  ft  vioif 
fetis  tain  celeriter  reoire  ao  condantinopo 
litanam  vrbem  minimc  potcratis.Atpofi 
quam  tad's  ciuitatis  amcooecocoe  vcftro 
nullomoro  rcceflit  fufpiccc  quia  vedra  ex 
cellcr.tia  fancta  que  coiporalitcr  vioeliq  ex 
co?o?  mirime  attcnoit.Sj  omnipotent  oe? 
mertcm  veftva  gratia  ftie  pictatis  tUudrct 
Donrc  nobis  fapete  K  tcmppralia  on-.nia 
qm  fint  fugitiua  penfarc.Quia  oum  bcc  lo 
quitur  t  trmpuscutrit-auiOex  fujnirnit 
ft  iniinoum  que  fpontc  volumus-ccce  iam 
,j.pecd  vtrclinquanius  inuiti  Onm  ajpio/ 
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tatis  angudtjs  premimttr  vt  ab  augania 
atqj  oncribtis  boc  ia;  tempore  ncc  nofmet 
ipfos  excufare  pofTitmus. 

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mibi  oe  bac  re  cojrcctam  caufam  fub  cele/ 
ritate  nuncietis. 

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tibus  ti 

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tiam  preiuoiciumqj  pertinet-tcmpore  oica 
tur  o?atc«ij  ipfms  oeoicationisexbibitum 


Qiiamobrem  fi  ita  eft-vt  antefata  ci?  fug/ 
gefhonecompimus'tf  i  ITOC  quicqj  cogno 
fcitis  int3ecenti?  fuiflfej  enn'iltim.Hojtamur 
vt  muficum  abbatej  monaHerii  agilitatu 
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monacbos  fuos  quos  illic  ojoinare  ceperat 
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nomino  iuuantc  Oifpofito-necftequcs  vos 
prefiiclc  religiofe  feminc  oc  no  impietis  bo 
nis  ncf.oeni.sfuisi  quercla  conaiciatnc  cu 
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pimus  c>ilationetoepe(cat- 

(TOcegtci^  rominicD  cpifcopo  ii) 

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caritatis  affectus  fcsJo  vobis  vf  as 
is  cu  allcgatione  principalium  iuf 
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re  icais  ^  rt'  \  cftro  gratulati  furnus  quej 
paflcaadter  i;eritis  ;clo  6:  piifljmos  Oi'ios 
ooraliore  illatas  venadtim  peribnanim  te: 
motiific  calumnias  niaxime  autc  quia  fhi 
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cufliitn  fcruarc.puinciam  \t  nullatcnus  De 
M'HS  hcrcticocurn  fcftas  cum  fcruccc  facer/ 
rvtali  colx-rcire  nc^igatis.Dc  quihs  ctiaj 
r  mnibus  Ibpienpis  Kantei.)j  caritatis  vfe 
rolulcreir.ur  apieibus  in  tin  nos  fubtilius 
tiifinifle  men,inim?-^  t  nibil  rurfus  tie  bis 
vobis  refponn  rinecefl'ariu  creoam?-Qua 
qua  crpo  K-c  ita  fe  ba  brant  (V  pefiOeremus 
on.nes  bcreticosacatbolicis  facerootibus 
vigcce  feinpet  rationcqj  compr  (ci  tn  fubti= 
litrr  inf  u'tes  omnino  nos  :tctigit  tie  per  ea 
que  aput  vos  gef  te  funt-aliccum  concilio/ 
rum  prtmatibusqCiaucrtnttominusgc/ 
nerctur  fcaniialum.Senfctitia  nanqj  a  vo/ 
bis  prol.ita  eft  in  concludone  gel  t«  urn  in 
qua  oum  pro  inucfnganOis  illos  Ixrcticis 
aomotiftis  fub  intulidis  eos  qui  negligut 
fubdantia^  nignitatcrnqj  priitationc  pie 
&enoo««Optimum  eft  igttur  fratei-  cariffi 
ire  vt  in  IMS  que  fcris  funt  ccurigcnPa  pri 
tis  cacitas  intcrna  (•uctur-vtfimus  mcntc 
fubiectt  qct  maxime  vfe  grauitatis  ,|priu 
iunicamus  ctiam  perfonis  oignttatc  in  mo 
ribxi  unc  etetfi  totis  coafiunatis  virtto  be/ 
rctico^  comoOius  obutatis  errcKibo-ctim 
fm  mcccm  facetDottj  vcdri  duDttcritis  in/ 
tcrius  ccclefta  fancla  cuft 


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5 1  Gregory  I,  Saint,  Pope.  Dialogorum  libri  quattuor.  Venice:  Hieronymus  de  Paganinis,  13 
November  1492 

Chancery  4°  (205  x  149mm.),  79  leaves  (of  80,  without  final  blank  leaf),  double 
column,  37  lines  and  headline,  Gothic  letter,  2-,  6-  and  7-line  initial  spaces,  heading  on 
al  recto  printed  in  red,  printer's  woodcut  device  of  St  Peter  on  Al  recto,  modern  vellum, 
library  stamp  on  Al ,  Al  repaired  at  inner  margin  and  slightly  soiled 

Gregory  I's  Dialogues  tell  the  lives  of  St  Benedict  and  other  early  Latin  saints.  They  were 
printed  in  at  least  eleven  incunable  editions,  the  earliest  being  that  printed  anonymously 
by  Heinrich  Eggestein  at  Strassburg,  c.  1472-1474  (Goff  G399).  Translations  in  German, 
Italian  and  Spanish  were  also  printed  before  the  end  of  the  century. 

De  Paganinis  printed  an  edition  of  Gregory  I's  Pastorale  exactly  one  month  after  the 
present  edition. 

References:  HC  *7963;  GW  1 1401;  BMC  v  457;  Goff  G405;  IGI  4422 

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52  Gregory  I,  Saint,  Pope.  Homiliae  super  Ezechielem.  [Basel:  Michael  Furter],  1496 

Chancery  4°  (201  x  140mm.),  102  leaves,  double  column,  47  lines  and  headline,  Gothic 
letter,  4-,  6-  and  7-line  initial  spaces  with  printed  guide-letters,  sixteenth-century  Spanish 
blind-stamped  light  brown  goatskin  over  pasteboards,  outer  roll-border  composed  of 
snails,  birds,  dogs  and  hares,  inner  floral  roll-border,  central  panel  with  an  acorn  tool  at 
corners  and  with  a  tool  of  a  warrior's  head  in  profile  in  the  centre,  plain  edges,  a  few  early 
manuscript  notes  in  margins,  early  Spanish  note  of  ownership  on  final  pastedown  deleted 

The  third  edition  of  Gregory's  homilies  on  Ezechiel,  the  first  printed  anonymously  at 
Brussels  by  the  Fratres  Vitae  Communis,  c.  1476-1477  (Goff  G424),  the  second,  also 
anonymously  at  Paris  by  Georg  Wolff,  c.  1489-1491  (GW  1 1426). 

Provenance:  Don  Mateo  de  Norzagaray,  with  printed  label  on  Al  recto 
References:  HC  *7946;  GW  1 1427;  BMC  iii  784;  Goff  G425 

£4,000-6,000 
€6,500-9,700 


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turnompdicamerTtcaciam  baprifmifua 
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53  Guilelmus  (Alvernus).  De  sacramentis.  De  causis  cur  deus  homo  et  de  penitencia  cum 
registro.  [Nuremberg:  Georg  Stuchs,  not  after  1497] 

Chancery  2°  (290  x  208mm.),  136  leaves,  double  column,  54  lines  and  headline,  Gothic 
letter,  3-  and  7-line  initials  alternately  in  red  and  blue,  paragraph-marks  in  red  and  blue, 
initial-strokes  in  red,  modern  limp  vellum,  many  uncut  edges,  tear  in  lower  margin  ofF3 
repaired,  margins  of  final  leaf  repaired,  a  few  light  damp-stains  in  margins,  final  leaf  lightly 
browned 

References:  HC  8316;  GW  1 1869;  BMC  ii  470;  Goff  G723;  BSB-Ink  G-472 

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54  Guilelmus  Paraldus.  Summa  de  vitiis.  [Basel:  Bertold  Ruppel,  c.  1473-1474] 

FIRST  EDITION,  Chancery  2°  (283  x  202mm.),  351  leaves  (of  352,  without  final  blank 
leaf),  38  lines,  Gothic  letter,  3-,  4-,  5-  and  6-line  initial  spaces,  contemporary  Augsburg 
blind-tooled  calf  over  wooden  boards,  two  brass  fore-edge  clasps,  vellum  title-label  on 
upper  cover,  printed- waste  paste-downs  from  Giinther  Zainer's  shop  (see  below),  plain 
edges,  modern  cloth  box,  early  manuscript  foliation  in  upper  margins,  the  first  gathering 
(table)  bound  between  gatherings  16 and  17 

FIRST  EDITION.  Paraldus,  a  native  of  Peyraut  between  Vienne  and  Lyon,  was  for  some 
years  prior  of  the  Dominican  convent  in  Lyon.  The  Summa  de  vitiis,  probably  composed 
c.  1236,  is  a  florilegium  of  moral  examples  arranged  under  the  seven  deadly  sins;  it  was 
followed  some  dozen  years  later  by  a  Summa  de  virtutibus.  Both  Summae  had  a  very  wide 
diffusion. 

None  of  Ruppel's  early  printing  is  dated.  The  present  edition  is  printed  with  his  type  2, 
and  several  of  his  books  printed  with  this  type  can  be  dated  not  after  1474,  on  the  basis  of 
inscriptions.  The  P-marked  papers  of  the  Paraldus  may  have  been  on  the  market  about 
1473  (see  G.  Piccard,  Wasserzeichen  P,  Abt.  IX,  nos.  175-178,  199,  202).  Basel  University 
Library's  copy  is  in  a  original  binding  with  and  endleaf  marked  with  one  of  the  Bull's 
Head  papers  from  the  so-called  Constance  Missal  (Goff  M655),  and  that  paper  too  was 
on  the  market  in  1473-1474  (see  T.  Gerardy  in  Archivfur  Geschichte  des  Buchwesens  5, 
1962,  399  sqq.).  A  second  Basel  edition  by  Michael  Wenssler  (Goff  P90)  has  the  same 
collation  as  the  present  edition  and  was  probably  copied  from  it.  It  is  dated  not  after  1475 
on  the  basis  of  an  inscription  in  the  British  Library  copy. 

The  present  binding  is  from  an  anonymous  Augsburg  shop  which  was  active  from  the 
early  1470s  onward.  The  waste  printing  used  as  pastedowns  are  two  leaves  from  Giinther 
Zainer's  second  edition  of  the  German  Plenarium,  dated  1474  (see  lot  85).  The  rear 
pastedown,  fo.  xxxiii,  includes  a  woodcut  of  the  Adoration  of  the  Magi  (Schramm  ii  Abb. 
304). 

Provenance:  George  Abrams,  with  bookplate  (sale  in  our  rooms,  16  November  1989,  lot 
60) 

References:  H  *  12385;  BMC  iii  715;  Goff  P89 

£15,000-20,000 
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55  Heiligen  Leben  (Der),  Sommerteil.  Augsburg:  Johann  Bdmler,  19  August  [14J75 

Third  edition,  Chancery  2°  (270  x  192mm.),  420  leaves,  28  lines,  Gothic  letter,  one  6- 
line  woodcut  Maiblumen  initial  at  the  beginning,  125  small  woodcuts  in  the  text,  a  few 
coloured  by  hand,  full-page  woodcut  of  the  Virgin  and  Child  on  verso  of  fol.  420,  partial 
woodcut  border  on  fol.  1  recto,  contemporary  German  blind-stamped  pigskin  over 
wooden  boards,  metal  corner-  and  centre-pieces,  2  clasps  and  catches,  modern  cloth  box, 
early  manuscript  foliation,  a  few  small  wormholes  in  first  few  leaves,  border  in  upper  margin 
of  fol.  1  slightly  shaved,  occasional  short  tears  in  text,  light  damp-staining  in  a  few  leaves,  one 
corner-piece  on  lower  cover  partly  detached 

A  FINE  COPY,  ONE  OF  ONLY  SEVEN  RECORDED.  Bamler  had  printed  the  Winterteil on.  20 
March  of  the  same  year. 

Der  Heiligen  Leben,  a  late  fourteenth-century  compilation  was  first  printed  in  two  parts, 
the  Winterteil and  Sommerteil,  by  Giinther  Zainer  at  Augsburg,  27  April  and  25  October 
1472  (Gofif  J156).  Johann  Sensenschmidt  printed  both  parts  together  at  Nuremberg  on 
28  July  1475  (BSB-Ink  H-l  1).  A  new  set  of  woodcuts  was  made  for  each  of  these 
editions.  The  cuts  used  in  the  present  third  edition  of  the  Sommerteil  were  copied  from 
those  made  for  Sensenschmidt's  second  edition. 

References:  H  *9970;  GofifJ157;  Schreiber  4300 

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56  Heiligen  Leben,  Der  (Sommerteil).  [Strassburg?:  c.  1490-95] 

Chancery  2°  (272  x  191mm.),  208  leaves  (a10  b8  c6  d-g6-8  h-t6-6-8  v-y6  z8  A-B6  C8 
D-H"),  a3-H5  foliated  j-ccv;  44  lines  and  headline,  Gothic  letter,  full-page  woodcut  of 
the  Crucifixion  on  fol.  1  verso,  approximately  130  smaller  woodcuts  in  the  text,  ALL 
WOODCUTS  COLOURED  BY  A  CONTEMPORARY  HAND,  contemporary  blind-stamped  calf- 
backed  boards,  tools  include  a  small  Agnus  Dei  (round)  and  a  MARIA  scroll,  one  clasp  and 
catch,  small  paper  flaw  in  e7  with  loss  of  a  few  letters,  occasional  short  tears  repaired,  some 
light  staining 

EXTREMELY  SCARCE:  ONE  OF  ONLY  THREE  OR  FOUR  KNOWN  COPIES  of  an  incunable  which 
remains  to  be  properly  identified.  A  copy  is  known  at  the  municipal  library  of  Nancy 
(cursorily  described  in  Polain's  notes  as  Pellechet-Polain  6537-8);  courtesy  of  the 
Gesamtkatalog  commission  two  more  copies  can  be  cited,  one  at  Gotha,  and  one  (appar 
ently  different  from  the  present  copy)  auctioned  by  Karl  &  Faber  in  1970,  where  it  was 
described  as  an  early  sixteenth-century  edition. 

From  what  is  presently  known  of  its  physical  elements,  the  edition  can  with  reasonable 
probability  be  dated  to  about  1490,  and  perhaps  localized  to  Strassburg.  One  of  its  paper 
stocks  is  a  P/quatrefoil  very  close  to  Piccard's  P  VIII  579  and  581,  traced  by  him  from  an 
unspecified  Strassburg  incunable  of  1495;  another  is  Fleur-de-lis/crown,  perhaps  identical 
to  Piccard's  Lilie  636  (Frankfurt/Main  1489)  and  very  close  to  Briquet  7233  (Luxemburg 
1485,  with  variants  Mainz,  Strassburg,  Metz,  1486-92).  Both  stocks  are  plausibly  from 
Lorraine  mills.  The  text  type  is  a  Schwabacher,  very  close  to  such  founts  as  Gruninger's 
type  5:98  and  Pruss's  12:93. 

The  in-text  woodcuts  are  apparently  those  used  in  Johann  Otmar's  Reutlingen  edition  of 
the  Sommerteil,  12  March  1482  (an  extremely  rare  edition  entered  in  ISTC  as  part  2  of 
Otmar's  Winterteil,  n.d.,  Goff  J-160).  The  full-page  crucifixion  cut  is  either  a  close  copy 
of,  or  was  copied  by,  a  block  used  by  Martin  Schott  in  Strassburg  for  his  Missale 
Vratislaviense,  17  Dec.  1491  (GfT  442;  IBP  3771:  a  single  copy  recorded  at  the  National 
Library  of  Warsaw).  Finally,  the  open  lombards  used  as  initials  are  close  but  not  identical 
to  such  sets  as  those  used  in  Speyer  by  Peter  Drach  (GfT  1 189),  and  in  Strassburg  by 
Martin  Schott  (GfT  438)  and  Gruninger  (GfT  445,  447). 

References:  Pellechet-Polain  (vii)  6538  (6537) 

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.•'  Expofitio  Symboli  R-uffini  Aquilegienlis  przfbyteri  ad  Laurentium  papatmln  qua 
^~S'£*I  fmgulos  arnculos  fidei  noui  ac  uetens  teftamenti  auftontatibusconfirmat:&Chirefes 
fV  >^contranas  deftruit .  Epiftola  Pnma . 

sj 

IHI  Quidem  Fideliffime  Papa  Laurenti  ad  fcnbendum 
animus  non  eft  tarn  cupidus :  c£  nee  idoneus:fcienti  no  effe 
abfq;  periculo  multo^  mdiciis  ingemum  tenue  &C  exile  co/ 
mittere.Sed  quonia  ut  cum  uenia  tui  dixenm)id  temere  m 
epiftola  tua  per  Chnfti  me  facramenta  qux  a  nobis  maxia 
cum  rcuerenna  fufcipiuntur  aftrloisrut  aliquid  tibi  de  fide 
fecundum  fymboli  traditionem  rationemcjj  c6ponam:quis 
fupra  uires  noftras  fit  podus  pncepti  (Non  enim  me  latet 
fententia  fapientum:qua;  probe  admodum  dicit:qa  de  deo 
&C  uera  dicere  periculofum  eft)  tamen  fi  expetitois  a  te  ipo/ 

^,  ^fitae  neceffitatem  orationibus  iuues:dicere  aliqua  obedientia;  magis  reuerentia  <|  igenn 
-  •  ^J  pfumptione  tentabimus:qux  qdem  non  ta  perfctfto^j  exercitiis  digna  uidcant":  q  qua; ad 
1  '-v  paruulo^inChrifto&Cincipienti'jlibrenturauditum.  Equidecoperi  nonullosilluftnii 
traftatorum  aliqua  de  his  pie  &C  breuiter  edidiffe .  Photmum  uero  haereticu  foo  eatenus 
fcnpfiffe:no  ut  ratione"  diftojjj  audietibus  explanaret :  fed  ut  fimpliciter  fidehterqj  dicta 
ad  argumentum  fui  dogmatis  traheret:cum  in  his  ucrbis  fanftus  fpiritus  prouident  nil 
abiguum:ml  obfcurii:nil  a  reliquis  diflbnas  uideri :  cja  m  his  uere  copletur  pphetia  qua; 
dicit  Vcrbum  enim  confumans  8C  breuiasimquitatetcja  uerbii  breuiatu  facitdommus 
fupcr  terra.  Nos  ergo  fimplicitatem  fua  uel  uerbis  apoftolicis  reddere 8C  fignare  te'tabi/ 
mus:ucl  qux omiffa  uidentur  a  pnonbus  adiplere.  Sed  ut  mamfeftius  fiat  argume'tum 
uerbi  hums  ut  diximus  breuiati  :caufa  qua  ha-c  traditio  ecclefus  data  eft  ab  ongine  repe 
temus.  Tradunt  maiores  noftri  cj  poft afcenfione  domim  cu  per  aduentu  fpiritus  fa'ndti 
fupra  fingulos  quofqj  apoftolos  ignea:  lingua;  fediffent:ut  loquelis  diuerfis  uamfcp  loa  / 
rentunper  quod  eis  nulla  gens  extraneatnulla  bnguz  barbanes  inaceffa  uideret"8i  iuia: 
pceptum  eis  a  domino  datum  hoc  ad  pdicandu  dei  uerbum  ad  fingulas  quencp  pficifci 
natoes .  Difceffun  itaqj  abiuice"  norm!  fibi  prius  futurz  pdicatois  in  comune  coftituut: 
ne  forte  alii  aho  abdudti  diuerfum  aliquid  his  qui  ad  fide"  Chnfti  inuitabatur  expone're't. 
Omnes  igitur  in  uno  pofiti:&C  fpintu  fando  repleti  breue  jftud  futurz  fibi  ut  diximus 
pdicatioms  indicium  in  unum  confcrendo  quod  fentiebat  unufqfc»  coponunt.'atcp  hanc 
credentibus  danda  effe  regula  ftatuunt.  Symbolu  aut  hoc  multis  8C  luftiffimis  ex  caufis 
appellah  uoluerunt. Symbolu  enim  graxe  K.  indicium  dici  pot&i  collatio:  hoc  eft  quod 
plures  in  unum  coferunt.Id  enim  fecerunt  apoftoli  i  his  fermonibus  in  unum  cofere'do 
quod  unufquifq;  fcnfit. Indicium  autem  uel  fignum  iccirco  dicitunquia  in  illo  tempore 
ficut  Paulus  apoftolus  dicit  5C I  aftibus  apoftolo^z  rcfert"multi  ex  circueuntibus  mdaris 
fimulabant  fe  effe  apoftolos  Chrifti:&  lucn  alicuius  uel  uentris  gratia  ad  prardicandum 
pficifcebatunnoiantes  qde Chriftu  fed  non  integns  tradinonj  Dneis  nunciates. Iccirco 
iftud  indicium  pofucriit:per  quod  agnofceretur  is  qui  Chriftu  uere  fecundu  apoftolicas 
regulas  pdicaret.Deniq;  8C  in  bellis  ciuilibus  hoc  obferuan  fcruntrquoniaSiarmon:  ha/ 
bitus  par:8<  fonus  uocis  ide":Si  mos  unus  eft. Atq;  cade"  iftituta  belladi  nequa  doli  furrc/ 
ptio  fiat:fymbola  diftmfta  unufquifq?  dux  fuis  militibus  tradit.'quaslatme  fi^na  uel  idi/ 
cia  nuncupatunut  fi  forte  occurrent  quis  de  quo  dubitetur  fymbolum  pdat  fi  fit  hoftis 
uel  focms.Iccirco  dcniq?  hie  no  fcnbi  chartulis  aut  mebrams:fed  requin  in  credentium 
cordibus  tradiderunt:ut  certum  effet  hzc  ncmme"  ex  leftone  qui  mterdu  peruenire  etia 
ad  infideles  folet  fed  ex  apoftoloi^  traditoe  didiciffe.  Difceffun  igitur  ut  diximus  ad  pdi 
candum  iftud  unamrmtatis  8C  fidei  fuz  apoftoli  indicium  pofuere :  no  ficut  filn  Adam 
difceffun  ab  alterutrum  turrem  ex  latere  cod;o  &C  bitumme  coftrue'tes :  cuius  cacumen 
ufq)  ad  carlum  pertmgeret:fed  monumeta  fidei  quz  ftarent  aduerfum  faciem  inimici  e 
lapidibus  umis  Si  margaritis  dommicis  atdificates:  quam  necj  uenti  impellerenttneque 
fulmma  fubmerent:nec|  te'peftatum  ac  procellapi  turbines  promouerent.  Mento  igitur 


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57  Hieronymus,  Saint.  Epistolae  et  tractatus.  Parma:  [Printer  ofHieronymus],  18  January- 1 5 
May  1480 

2  volumes,  Super-Royal  2°  (422  x  277mm.),  584  leaves,  53  lines,  Roman  letter,  2  8-line 
initials  supplied  by  an  Italian  hand  in  colours  on  gilt  grounds,  2-,  4-  and  6-line  initials 
and  paragraph-marks  alternately  in  red  and  blue,  early  eighteenth-century  Italian 
sprinkled  calf,  spines  gilt  with  red  labels,  sprinkled  edges,  modern  morocco-backed  boxes, 
bindings  rebacked  retaining  original  spines,  worn  at  edges 

FIRST  EDITION  WITH  THESE  SUPPLEMENTS.  There  were  numerous  fifteenth-century 
editions  of  the  collected  letters  and  tractates  of  St  Jerome,  together  with  various  pseudo- 
Jerome  writings,  letters  addressed  to  Jerome,  and  several  lives  of  Jerome.  The  present 
edition  derives  from  the  collection  assembled  byTheodorus  Lelius  (d.  1466)  and  printed 
after  his  death  by  Sweynheym  and  Pannartz,  13  December  1468  (Goff  H161)  and  by 
Sixtus  Riessinger,  not  after  1470  (Goff  HI  63).  Mentelin's  Strassburg  edition  of  not  after 
1469  (Goff  HI 62)  and  Schoeffer's  Mainz  edition  of  7  September  1470  (Goff  HI 65)  are 
independent  compilations.  The  present  edition  was  reprinted  from  Miscomini's  1476 
Venice  edition  (Goff  HI  66),  with  the  addition  of  several  letters  and  tractates  in  volume  2; 
these  additional  texts  are  advertised  in  the  colophon  as  not  available  in  other  editions. 
The  anonymous  life  of  Jerome  (Socii  Bollandiani,  Bibliotheca  hagiographica  latina,  1898- 
1901,  no.  3873)  included  in  Miscomini's  edition  is  here  replaced  with  the  life  by  pseudo- 
Sebastian  of  Monte  Cassino  (ibid.,  no.  3870),  which  was  first  printed  by  Sweynheym  and 
Pannartz's  1468  edition. 

This  eponymous  press  has  never  been  identified.  The  present  edition  was  its  first  and 
most  important  production,  followed  by  some  five  folio  and  quarto  editions  of  classical 
texts,  including  Chrysoloras's  Greek- Latin  grammar  (GW  6697). 

Blank  spaces  have  been  left  in  the  text  of  the  present  edition  for  the  supply  of  Greek 
words  in  manuscript,  but  the  word  TeA-Oc;  is  printed  in  Greek  at  the  end  of  the  life  of 
Jerome  and  at  the  end  of  the  second  colophon. 

Provenance:  Augustinian  Hermits  of  Milan,  with  contemporary  inscription:  'Iste  liber  est 
Conventus  sancte  marie  coronate  mediolani  fratrum  Eremitarum  sancti  Augustini 
observantium  congregationis  Lombardie';  Count  Carlo  Archinto  of  Milan,  1670-1732, 
with  bookplate  (sale  Paris,  1863);  Cuthbert  Hamilton  Turner,  with  inscription,  bought  in 
Paris,  1919;  Albert  Ehrman,  Broxbourne  Library,  with  bookplate  (sale  in  our  rooms,  ii,  7 
May  1978,  lot  493);  George  Abrams,  with  bookplate  (sale  in  our  rooms,  16  November 
1989,  lot  65) 

References:  HC  *8558;  BMC  vii  942;  Goff  H 169 

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defia  tn  vtbis  tome  boc  no  bcpzebenbitut  fcm 
t>  co  atbitcot»g>  ncqj  beeefia  vlla  iliic  fumpfit 
e^ordium.a  mos  mibi  fecuatuc  anaqu?»cos  q 
gtaoam  bapttfrni  (tifcepturi  nittt-publicc  ibsm 
fifcclium  populo  au&icfc  fimtolu  ccbiccc«<i  vti 
q;  abicdioncm  vni?  faltcm  fennoms  coj^  qut 
pccctfTccunt  m  fibe  no  abmittit  aubicus,  jn  cc 


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urn  pomtuc.ficut  a  apoftol^  ad  tebrcos  fccife 
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feum  opottct-qz  eft  a  ceebentib?  m  fe  fit  tmune 
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.  Vt  ecgo  hit  elligcttc  ibi  abituo  patcfcat 
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58 

58  Hieronymus  (pseudo-)  [Rufinus  Aquileiensis]  Expositio  symbol!  gloriosi  leronymi 
contra  louinianum  hereticum.  [Cologne:  Ulrich  Zel,  c.  1472] 

Chancery  4°  (217  x  143mm.),  30  leaves,  27  lines,  4-line  initial  space,  initials,  paragraph- 
marks  and  initial-strokes  in  red,  nineteenth-century  blind-stamped  calf,  edges  stained 
green,  corners  rubbed 

Rufinus's  commentary  on  the  apostle's  creed  was,  following  a  common  manuscript 
tradition,  attributed  to  St  Jerome  both  in  this  editio  princeps,  and  in  the  Oxford  edition 
of  17  December  1478  (Goff  R352). 

Provenance:  Dukes  of  Arenberg,  with  inventory  label  on  spine  (Schab  catalogue  23,  no. 
42);  Walter  Goldwater,  with  bookplate  (sale  New  York,  ii,  5  December  1985,  lot  119) 

References:  HC  *8578;  BMC  i  191;  Goff  R351;  VK  1057 

£7,000-10,000 
€11,300-16,200 


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5De  immottalifaf  e  animc. 


59  actual  size 

59  Houppelande,  Guillermus.  De  immortalitate  animae.  Paris:  [Pierre  Le  Drufor]  Denis 
Roce,  4  September  1499 

Chancery  8°  (131  x  91mm.),  24  leaves,  31  lines,  Gothic  letter,  one  7-line  initial  space 
with  printed  guide,  printer's  woodcut  device  on  title,  later  vellum 

The  last  of  four  fifteenth-century  editions,  all  printed  in  Paris.  Although  described  by 
most  bibliographies  as  quarto,  this  edition  is  in  fact  printed  in  octavo,  like  the  three 
earlier  editions. 

References:  HR  8969;  Goff  H495;  IGI  4909;  CIBN  H-301;  Gates  3130.5 

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€650-950 


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60  Homer.  Opera  [Greek]  (edited  by  Demetrius  Chalcondylas).  Florence:  Demetrius  Damilas 
[in  the  shop  of  the  Printer  of  Virgil  (Copinger  6061)]  for  Bernardus  and  Nerius  Nerlius,  and 
Giovanni  Acciaiuoli,  9  December  1488  [dedication  printed  13  January  1488/89  or  shortly 
after] 

bound  in  2  volumes,  Median  2°  (325  x  235mm.),  189  leaves  (of  190,  without  final  blank 
leaf))  39  lines,  Greek  letter,  2-  and  10-line  initial  spaces,  brown  crushed  morocco  by 
Marius  Michel,  brown  morocco  gilt  doublures  decorated  with  a  seme  of  fleurs-de-lys,  gilt 
edges,  occasional  contemporary  manuscript  notes,  lacking  final  blank  leaf 

FIRST  EDITION  IN  GREEK  OF  HOMER,  PRINCE  OF  POETS,  AND  THE  FIRST  LARGE-SCALE 
PRINTING  IN  GREEK. 

The  editor,  Demetrios  Chalcondylas,  had  come  to  Italy  at  the  invitation  of  Cardinal 
Bessarion  in  1447  and  came  under  the  patronage  of  Lorenzo  de'  Medici  in  the  1470s. 

The  Greek  font  of  the  Homer  is,  with  variants  of  a  few  sorts,  that  of  the  earliest  Milanese 
Greek  font,  used  in  1476  and  after.  The  maker  of  this  font  was  Demetrius  Damilas  of 
Crete,  whose  skill  and  pains  are  commemorated  in  the  colophon  and  dedication  of  the 
Homer.  Despite  the  lengthy  and  circumstantial  colophon,  bibliographers  have  had 
trouble  in  agreeing  on  the  correct  imprint  and  date.  Robert  Proctor  ( 77^-  Printing  of  Greek 
in  the  Fifteenth  Century,  1900,  p.  66  sqq.)  argued  that  the  edition  was  actually  printed  in 
the  shop  of  Bartolommeo  di  Libri,  whose  type  was  used  to  print  the  dedication  to  Piero 
de'  Medici  on  the  first  page.  BMC  assigned  the  edition  rather  to  the  Nerli  brothers. 
Roberto  Ridolfi  (La  stampa  a  Firenze  nelsecolo  XV,  1958,  p.  95  sqq.)  has  pointed  out  that 
the  Nerli  were  well-born  and  wealthy  Florentines  whose  role  would  have  been  a  purely 
financial  one.  He  has  assigned  the  Homer  to  the  anonymous  Florentine  shop,  the  Printer 
of  Virgil  (Copinger  6061,  Goff  V183),  which  flourished  from  1488  to  1490  or  so.  Ridolfi 
has  supposed  that  only  the  first,  dedication  page  was  printed  in  di  Libri's  shop,  more  than 
a  month  after  the  completion  of  the  edition  proper,  this  page  hitherto  having  been 
planned  as  a  blank. 

The  Batrachomyomachia  ('Battle  of  the  Frogs  and  Mice'),  a  pseudo-homeric  text,  which  is 
also  included  here  with  the  Iliad,  Odyssey  and  Homeric  Hymns,  had  been  earlier  printed 
in  an  unsigned  Greek-Latin  edition  printed  perhaps  at  Brescia  or  Ferrara,  which  is  known 
only  from  the  unique  copy  in  the  John  Rylands  University  Library,  Manchester. 

Provenance:  University  of  Lyon,  with  stamp  ACAD.  LUGD.  and  release  stamp  dated  1843; 
Constantine  Radoulesco,  with  leather  booklabel;  H.  Bradley  Martin,  with  bookplate 
(Sotheby's  New  York,  14  June  1990,  lot  3355) 

References:  HCR  8772;  BMV  vi  678;  Goff  H300 

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bydrj  ,vp:ic  quan.i  p  jro  uiicr  clhuu  t  e^lnouu/ 
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met  Iconcm  (  virgincm  coiiihtuiiiu  vidcrar  uuiiiutior  ad  caput 


61 

61  Hyginus  Mythographus.  Poeticon  astronomicon  (edited  by  Jacobus  Sentinus  and 
Johannes  Lucilius  Santritter).  Venice:  Erhard  Ratdolt,  14  October  1482 

Chancery  4°  (186  x  143mm.),  57  leaves  (of  58,  without  the  initial  blank  leaf),  31  lines, 
Gothic  letter,  5-,  6-  and  1 1-line  white-on-black  woodcut  initials,  heading  on  a2  recto 
printed  in  red,  47  woodcuts  in  text,  nineteenth-century  polished  calf,  modern  morocco- 
backed  slipcase  and  chemise 

SECOND,  BUT  FIRST  ILLUSTRATED  EDITION,  CONTAINING  THE  EARLIEST  PRINTED 
REPRODUCTIONS  OF  THE  CONSTELLATIONS,  PLANETS  AND  SIGNS  OF  THE  ZODIAC.  The  first 
edition,  printed  at  Ferrara  in  1475,  contains  blank  spaces  presumably  intended  for  hand 
illustrations.  The  woodcuts  of  the  present  edition,  ascribed  by  Hind  to  one  of  the  two 
editors,  Johannes  Lucilius  Santritter,  were  reused  by  Ratdolt  in  his  1485  reprint  of  the 
same  work  (see  lot  62)  and  also  in  his  1488  Augsburg  edition  of  Johannes  Angelus, 
Astro labium  (see  lot  10). 

The  text  is  often  misattributed  to  Caius  Julius  Hyginus,  Augustan  freedman,  librarian  of 
the  Palatine  Library,  and  friend  of  Ovid.  Its  primary  source  is  the  Phaenomena  of  Aratus 
(c.  315-240  BC),  a  poem  about  the  constellations  and  weather  signs  which  became,  after 
the  ///Wand  Odyssey,  the  most  widely  read  poem  in  the  ancient  world.  In  it  we  find 
clearly  explained  the  basics  of  astronomy,  world,  sphere,  diameter  and  pole,  as  well  as  a 
treatment  of  the  42  constellations  and  the  zodiac,  all  embroidered  with  mythological 
stories.  When  discussing  Capricorn  we  are  told  of  an  divine  assembly  in  Egypt,  in  which 
irrupted  the  enemy  Typhon.  To  escape  him  nay  gods  changed  their  shape:  Mercury 
turned  into  an  Ibis,  Apollo  became  a  crane,  and  it  was  for  this  reason  that  the  Egyptians 
considered  these  birds  to  be  gods. 

Leaf  a3  is  signed  b3;  but  d3  is  correctly  signed  (see  BMC). 

Provenance:  Gilbert  R.  Redgrave,  Ratdolt's  bibliographer,  with  bookplate  and  a  long 
bibliographical  note  on  flyleaf  dated  13  May  1891;  Robert  Honeyman  IV,  with  bookplate 
(sale  in  our  rooms,  iv,  6  November  1979,  lot  1735);  George  Abrams,  with  bookplate  (sale 
in  our  rooms,  16  November  1989,  lot  69) 

References:  HC  *9062;  BMC  v  286;  GorTH560;  Sander  3472;  Essling  285;  Klebs  527.2; 
Redgrave,  Ratdolt,  30 

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j  Ndromeda,ppe  cafliopeia  fapra  caput  perfei  bre/ 
j  ui  interuallo  diflldete  pfpicir  collocata:  manibus 
diucrfis  uincta  ut  antiqs  biftoriis  e  traditu:  cuius 
j  caput  equi  pegaii  uetri  coiungif.Eade  cni  ftclla  ut 

l  umbilicus  pegafi  fl^  andromed^  caput  appellatur 

Hui^mediu  pectus  &  manu  flniftra  circulus  fftm'diuidit.  Oc/ 
cidit  aute  cd  pifce  de  duob^lccudotque  andromed^  fubiectum 
bracbio  fupra  dixim^Exoricte  libra  &  fcorpione  capite  priuf/ 
q^  reliquo  corpe  puenit  ad  terra.Exorit  aute  cu  pi(cib^&:  ariete 
Hf  c  ut  fiipra  dixim9!^  I  capite  ftella  clare  luceteunaJn  utroq; 
.buero.iJn  cubito  dextro4tlri ipCa  mautijn  finiftro  cubito  ufi 


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137 


62  Hyginus  Mythographus.  Poeticon  astronomicon  (edited  by  Jacobus  Sentinus  and 
Johannes  Lucilius  Santritter).  Venice:  Erhard  Ratdolt,  22  January  1485 

Super-Chancery  4°  (214  x  155mm.),  56  leaves,  32  lines,  Roman  letter,  3,  5-  and  11-line 
white-on-black  woodcut  initials,  full-page  woodcut  schematic  sphere  on  al  verso,  47 
woodcuts  of  the  constellations,  nineteenth-century  olive  morocco,  early  Hebrew  notes  in 
Rabbinic  script  on  verso  of  final  leaf  and  captions  for  woodcuts,  occasional  early 
manuscript  annotations  in  Latin,  cl  and  c8  misbound  in  place  of  each  other,  small  paper 
repairs  in  lower  margins  of  a  few  leaves,  some  light  damp-staining  in  a  few  leaves,  edges  of 
binding  slightly  rubbed 

Third  edition.  The  woodcuts  were  first  used  in  Ratdolt's  1482  edition  (see  previous  lot). 
This  second,  Ratdolt  edition  is  printed  in  Roman  type  rather  the  Gothic  used  in  his 
earlier  edition.  It  also  contains  a  full-page  schematic  sphere  at  the  beginning  of  the  text, 
and  the  two  concluding  Carmina  adlectorem  by  Sentinus  of  the  earlier  edition  are  here 
omitted. 

The  present  copy  contains  early  Hebrew  notes  in  Rabbinic  script  on  the  blank  verso  of 
the  final  leaf  and  in  a  few  captions  for  the  woodcuts. 

Provenance:  Hewell,  with  bookplate;  Robert  George  Windsor-Clive,  P.C.,  C.B.,  Earl  of 
Plymouth,  with  bookplate 

References:  HC  *9063;  BMC  v  289;  Goff  H561;  Sander  3473;  Essling  286;  IGI  4960; 
Redgrave,  Ratdolt,  48 

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qj  oculis  fingulas.in  frontc  media  uniEx quibus locis  cornua 
nafcuntur  fmgulas:qu3E  fcptem  ftcllz  hyadcs  nuncupatur.Et  fi 
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63  Hyginus  Mythographus.  Poeticon  astronomicon.  Venice:  Thomas  de  Blavis,  de  Alexandria, 
7  June  1489 

Chancery  4°  (204  x  141  mm.),  56  leaves,  34  lines,  Roman  letter,  5-,  6-  and  1 1-line  white- 
on-black  woodcut  initials,  some  initial  spaces  with  printed  guides,  47  woodcuts  of  the 
constellations,  ALL  COLOURED  BY  AN  EARLY  HAND,  some  early  manuscript  notes  and 
captions  in  red  ink,  other  early  manuscript  notes  on  first  leaf,  nineteenth-century  vellum, 
occasional  staining 

A  reprint  of  Ratdolt's  1485  edition  (see  lot  62),  from  which  the  woodcuts  are  copied, 
some  in  reverse.  Copies  of  this  edition  are  known  with  the  date  1485  (see  H  9064  and 
Proctor  4760).  The  heading  for  the  schematic  diagram  on  al  verso  is  here  printed  in 
Gothic  letter,  while  in  Ratdolt's  1485  edition  this  was  in  Roman  letter. 

References:  HC  *9065;  BMC  v  318;  Goff  H562;  Sander  3474;  Essling  287;  IGI  4961; 
Proctor  4765 

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140 


JAMBLICHVSDEMYSTERirS. 

De  cognitione  diuin  or  urn 

gyptiifcriptorcsputantesomniainuetaeflea  Mcr 
'curio  Juoslibros  nierciino  infcnbebat.  Mcrcuhus 
peftfapietk&elocjp.   Pythagoras,  Plato. Democri 
cus.  Eudoxus.  &  inulti  ad  facerdotes  xgyptiosaccclfc 
nit-  Dogmatahumslibrifutairynoru,&,egyptioru. 
&cxcolunis Mcrcurii.   Pythagoras&  Plato didice/ 
implnioiophiaexcoliinis  Mcrcurii  in  aegypto.  Co 
crcurii  plen<edoctrinis.  A  utco  nine  ratio  ins  ufum  inert  na- 
turaliter  infitadeorumnotio  .Immo  tactus  quida  diuinitads  mclior, 
quani  notitia ,  exquo  incitatur naturalis appetitus boni  ,& ratiocmatio 
at^uidiciiiin.   E{Icntialiscognitioduiinoru.,qu^animacfl:perpctua 
acre  ucranoncft  cognitio  h^ec,  qua  deo  fruimur.  Incognitionecnim 
eft  alteri  tas.led  co  n  tactu ;  q  uidam  effentiaiis  &  i  im  p  lex .  N  on  enim  pof- 
fitmus attingerc  unitatemipiam,nifi  unitii'iimo  quodam  &  imitate" 
mentis,  qux  ruperanim<e,mentisqucproprietaremextar.       Vnitas 
ipia  dcorum  unit  (ibi  anima?  ab  <cthcrno  per  unitatcs  carum  fecunduni 
contiguitatem  tarn  propnam  &c  eflicacem,utefic  contintiitas  uidea- 
tur.Inteliectusdiiuiiusdateircanim'i-perintelligcrefuuincfientiale. 
Ergo  ci~leanim<ecftqiioddam  iiitclligcrcicilicetdeuinunde  depcndct. 
Effe  no ftrum  eft  deuin  cognoicere.  quia  prcccipuum  cffe anima?,eit  iii- 
tellectus  fuus,in  quo  idem  eft ,  cffe  quod  mtclligcrc  diuma  actu  perpe- 
tuo.  Abilloaufpnieflcprcccipiioderiuanturpotcnti.canini.cdiiairreii 
tes.   Poftdeosponimiisd;emoinji.licroc£:.o7Tiniaspiiras,hitresordme5 
pediffequi  funtdeoriinv  Nonpoflumus  folitis  humanierationisdif. 
curfionibusattingeredeorumpcdi{{equosdsmoncs:heroesanimospu 
ros.  Sed  necefle  cit  confurgere  ad  centialem  intclligcntiam  &c  xtherna. 
Sicutdiifeniperattingunturnotioneinnata/icnummadeorumpe 
diflequa,tuncprimtimattingunturquando  animadepofuitmodum 
cognitionij  mobilem,  qui  ad  potcntiam  fpectat  rationalcm,  qux  mtel 
lectLiintelligentiaq;  formatur,qucin  uocantiiitellectumadeptum .  Na 
priinanotitiainagcnteintellectLiconiiftit.  Cum  cognitio  pcrada^qua 
tioncm  fiat.lequitur  ut  minima  lempitcrna,&;  immobiliaattingamus, 
iiotionefempiternaimmobilifimplici.  Cognitio  qua  cognofcimus 
fubftatitias  fcparatas:  eft  in  alia  fpccic,<|  ilia,  qua  cognofcimus  alia~ 
:  Cognitio duiinoriimfiiitfeinperiiianimaperfimplicemintuitum 


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141 


64  lamblichus.  De  mysteriis  aegyptiorum,  chaldaeorum,  assyriorum  (and  other  Platonic  and 
neo-Platonic  writings,  translated  and  edited  by  Marsilius  Ficinus).  Venice:  Aldus 
Manutius,  September  1497 

FIRST  EDITION,  Super-Chancery  2°  (291  x  199mm.),  185  leaves  (of  186,  without  the  final 
blank  leaf),  37  lines  and  headline,  Roman  letter,  3-  and  7-line  initial  spaces  with  printed 
guide-letters,  outline  woodcut  on  a3  recto  illuminated  in  gilt,  red,  green  and  blue,  an 
armorial  painted  in  lower  margin  of  a3  recto,  early  nineteenth-century  Italian  sheep  richly 
gilt,  green  silk  pastedowns  with  gilt  dentelle  borders,  gilt  edges,  modern  morocco-backed 
slipcase  and  chemise,  sides  slightly  rubbed 

FIRST  EDITION  of  this  important  collection  of  classical  and  Byzantine  Platonic  texts 
translated  and  edited  by  Marsilio  Ficino  (1433-1499),  dedicated  to  Cardinal  Giovanni  de' 
Medici  (later  Pope  Leo  X),  second  son  of  Ficino's  patron  Cosimo  de'  Medici.  It  was  at  the 
behest  of  Cosimo  that  Ficino  learned  Greek  and  for  whom  he  made  translations  of  Plato's 
works.  These  translations  were  first  printed  at  Florence  by  Laurentius  de  Alopa,  c.  1484- 
85  (Goff  P771).  Ficino  was  also  the  founder  and  leading  spirit  of  the  Platonic  Academy 
of  Florence. 

The  present  collection  comprises  two  groups  of  translations:  the  first  (lamblichus  to 
Priscianus  Lydus)  made  in  the  late  1480s;  the  second  (Alcinous-Xenocrates)  in  the  early 
1460s.  To  this  second  group  is  added  Ficino's  own  early  tract  De  voluptate  (written  in 
1457).  For  details  on  the  dates  and  textual  history  of  each  text,  see  Paul  O.  Kristeller, 
Supplementum  Ficinianum,  1937,  iii,  Index  operum;  and  for  indentification  of  the  Greek 
manuscript  sources  used  by  Ficino,  see  Kristeller,  Marsilio  Ficino  and  his  Work  after  Five 
Hundred  Years,  1987,  appendix  V. 

lamblichus  (c.  245-325AD),  a  pupil  of  Porphyry,  is  one  of  the  most  important  figures  in 
the  history  of  Neoplatonism,  and  through  his  Vita  Pythagorae  and  Protrepticus  of 
Pythagorean  number  symbolism.  lamblichus  also  knew  the  works  of  Hermes 
Trismegistus,  and  was  an  early  critic  of  certain  spuria.  In  his  De  mysteriis  lamblichus 
writes  of  the  importance  of  ritual  and  of  how  the  initiate  (mustes)  must  transcend 
corporality  and  matter  in  the  service  of  the  gods,  and  become  one  with  them  through  the 
power  which  unites  the  cosmos. 

The  importance  of  lamblichus  in  the  late  fifteenth  and  early  sixteenth  centuries  cannot  be 
overstated,  not  can  his  influence  on  the  history  of  Neoplatonsim.  His  succcessors  credited 
him  with  the  whole  orientation  of  later  Neoplatonic  philosophy,  by  his  establishing  a 
curriculum,  drawing  up  a  system  for  the  interpretation  of  Plato,  by  his  extension  of  the 
use  of  mathematics  in  philosophy  (cf.  his  In  Nichomachi  arithmeticam  introductio) ,  by  his 
refining  of  Neoplatonic  metaphysics,  and  by  his  extraordinary  syncretism  of  the  various 
theologies,  demonology  and  rites  of  the  ancients,  including  the  Egyptians,  Persians, 
Chaldaeans  and  others.  Some  of  his  lost  works  were  known  to  Macrobius  and  to  the 
Emperor  Julian  the  Apostate. 

All  but  two  of  the  texts  are  here  published  for  the  first  time.  Alcinous  was  first  printed  in 
the  translation  of  Petrus  Balbus  at  Nuremberg  in  1472  (Goff  A365),  and  the  original 
Greek  text  of  the  Pythagorean  Golden  Verses  was  included  in  the  first  book  from  Aldus's 
press,  Lascaris's  Erotemata of  1494/95  (GoffL68). 

This  handsome  copy,  later  in  the  Saks  and  Abrams  collections,  belonged  in  the 
nineteenth  century  to  Lord  Vernon  the  great  Dante  scholar,  whose  editions  of  Dante  and 
the  commentators  upon  him  are  of  great  importance.  The  manuscripts  of  his  own 
commentary  on  Dante  are  in  the  College  Library,  Eton,  which  has  a  number  of  his  books. 

Provenance:  George  John  Warren,  5th  Baron  Vernon  (1803-1866),  with  bookplate  (sale  in 
our  rooms,  10  June  1918,  lot  300);  John  A.  Saks,  with  bookplate  (sale  New  York,  1 
October  1980,  lot  122);  George  Abrams,  with  bookplate  (sale  in  our  rooms,  16 
November  1989,  lot  70) 

References:  HC  *9358;  BMC  v  557;  Goff  J216;  Klebs  529.1;  Renouard  p.  13;  Ahmanson- 
Murphy  17;  Christ,  Plato,  Hermes  Trismegistus  ( 1 990)  no.  127 

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65  Isidorus  Hispalensis,  Saint,  Bishop  of  Seville.  Etymologiae.  [Augsburg]:  Giinther  Zainer,  19 
November  1472 

FIRST  EDITION,  Chancery  2°  (304  x  218mm.),  264  leaves,  38  lines,  Roman  letter,  3  full- 
page  woodcut  diagrams,  small  woodcut  world  map,  numerous  woodcut  diagrams  and 
symbols  in  text,  3-  and  6-line  initials  supplied  in  red  or  blue,  many  with  penwork 
decoration  and  extensions  in  green  and  blue  ink,  headlines  and  paragraph-marks  in  red, 
nineteenth-century  half  sheep,  several  early  manuscript  annotations  in  Latin,  with  a  few 
in  Hebrew,  a  few  small  wormholes  in  the  first  few  leaves,  first  and  last  gatherings  loose  and 
guarded,  damp-stain  in  some  outer  margins,  occasional  other  light  soiling  and  staining 

FIRST  EDITION  of  Isidore's  encyclopaediaa  of  medieval  knowledge  composed  at  the  turn  of 
the  sixth  century.  IT  CONTAINS  THE  FIRST  PRINTED  MAP,  of  the  diagrammatic  T-O  form 
showing  the  three  continents  separated  by  a  T-shape  Mediterranean  Sea,  the  whole 
enclosed  within  the  ocean.  The  three  genealogical  woodcuts  show  trees  of  consanguinity 
and  affinity  and  a  large  wheel-form  diagram  of  family  relationships. 

The  Etymologiae  of  Isidore  of  Seville  stand  out  as  THE  GREAT  ENCYCLOPAEDIA  OF  THE 
EARLY  AND  HIGH  MIDDLE  AGES.  Isidore  (died  4  April  636AD)  left  this  remarkable  work 
unfinished,  although  even  before  his  demise,  the  work  was  in  circulation.  The  division 
and  editing  of  the  text  in  twenty  books  was  carried  out  by  Braulio,  Bishop  of  Saragossa,  to 
whom  Isidore  sent  the  text  before  his  death,  and  there  are  three  versions  of  the  text  (and 
three  groups  of  manuscripts),  the  pirated  version,  the  unedited  text  of  the  author  and  the 
text  as  edited  by  Braulio.  Within  less  than  a  hundred  years  it  was  known  across  Europe, 
e.g.  to  Aldhelm  in  England,  who  used  information  derived  from  Isidore  (died  709  AD, 
see  A.  Orchard,  The  poetic  art  of  Aldhelm,  Cambridge,  1994.  p.  14).  Manuscripts,  some  of 
great  antiquity,  attest  to  the  rapid  dissemination  of  the  text  (see  M.  Reydellet,  'La 
Diffusion  des  Originesd' Isidore  de  Seville  au  Haut  Moyen  Age',  in  MEFR78  (1966)  pp. 
383-437).  The  Etymologiae  cover  the  liberal  arts,  medicine,  law,  language,  geography  — 
hence  the  map  in  this  editio  princeps  -  and  natural  history,  and  constituted  ONE  OF  THE 
MAIN  ROUTES  FOR  THE  TRANSMISSION  OF  CLASSICAL  LEARNING  TO  THE  MIDDLE  AGES  (cf.  E 
Brunholzl,  Histoire  de  la  litterature  latine  du  Moyen  Age,  1 ,  pt.  1  (1990),  78-93,  257-260). 

The  present  edition  is  the  first  complete  book  to  be  printed  with  this  Roman  type,  which 
Zainer  had  previously  used  to  print  a  broadside  calendar  in  1471  (GW  1293).  Mentelin's 
Strassburg  edition  is  dated  not  after  1473  on  the  basis  of  an  ownership  inscription  in  a 
copy  at  Bamberg. 

The  early  manuscript  notes  include  on  fol.  54  some  Hebrew  translations  of  the  names  of 
planets,  some  scattered  notes  in  the  section  on  medicine,  and  at  the  beginning  of  Book  VI 
a  contemporary  note  with  the  date  1483. 

Provenance:  Staatsbibliothek,  Berlin,  with  release  stamp 

References:  H  *9273;  BMC  ii  317;  Goff  1181;  Klebs  536.2;  Schreiber  1532;  Shirley  1 

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66  Jacobus  de  Voragine.  Legenda  aurea  sanctorum.  Nuremberg:  Georg  Stuchs,  1  October  1488 

Median  4°  (229  x  169mm.),  276  leaves,  double  column,  47  lines  and  headline,  Gothic 
letter,  first  8-line  initial  in  blue  on  a  gilt  panel  with  coloured  borders,  other  2-  and  3-line 
initials  supplied  alternately  in  red  and  blue,  paragraph-marks  in  red,  contemporary 
Nuremberg  binding,  blind-tooled  calf  over  unbevelled  wooden  boards,  both  covers  with 
an  outer  border  ruled  in  blind,  that  on  upper  cover  decorated  with  a  repeated  leafy  staff 
tool  and  a  gryphen,  central  panel  filled  with  a  repeated  artichoke  tool,  title  originally 
tooled  in  gilt  at  head  of  the  upper  cover,  lower  cover  decorated  with  a  leaf  staff  tool,  a 
large  rosette  and  a  gryphen,  four  metal  corner-  and  centre-pieces,  two  clasps  and  catches, 
title  lettered  along  upper  edges,  modern  cloth  box,  lower  margin  of  initial  blank  leaf  and 
M4  strengthened,  slight  worming  in  margins  of  last  few  leaves,  some  leaves  in  gathering  L 
misbound,  rebacked,  new  endpapers 

The  Legenda  aurea  sanctorum,  written  by  the  Italian  Dominican  friar  Jacobus  de  Voragine 
(1230-1298),  was  a  popularly  written  collection  of  lives  of  the  saints  following  the  church 
year.  Of  wide  circulation  and  influence  from  the  late  thirteenth  century  onward,  it  was 
first  printed  by  Heinrich  Eggestein  at  Strassburg,  not  after  April  1472  (Goff  J81),  and 
was  reprinted  at  least  seventy  times  before  the  end  of  the  century. 

A  Nuremberg  binding  by  the  'Hieronymus  Miinzer  Binder'  (Kyriss  116),  so-called  after 
his  chief  customer  (see  E.P.  Goldschmidt,  Hie ronymus  Meunzer  und  seine  Bibliothek, 
Warburg  Institute,  1938). 

Provenance:  Library  of  the  Prince  Bishop  at  Eichstatt,  with  note  of  ownership  on  title  Ad 
Biblioth[ecam]  aul[icam]  Eystettense[m]';  The  Brother  Julian,  ES.C.  Collection, 
Manhattan  College,  with  bookplate  recording  gift  from  Christian  A.  Zabriskie 

References:  C  6450;  BMC  ii  468;  Goff  J 120 

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67  [Johann  von  Paltzj.  Quaestio  determinata  contra  triplicem  errorem  de  Antichrist! 

revelatione.  Memmingen:  [Albrecht  Kunne,  after  24  August  i486] 

Chancery  4°  (197  x  139mm.),  44  leaves,  33  lines,  Gothic  letter,  4-line  initial,  initial- 
strokes  and  underlining  all  in  red,  modern  calf,  yellow  edges  (from  an  earlier  binding), 
some  spotting  and  staining 

Second  edition,  closely  reprinted  from  the  first  edition  printed  at  Erfurt  (Goff  A771). 
Johann  von  Paltz,  an  Augustinian  Hermit,  was  a  leading  intellectual  in  Erfurt  at  the  end 
of  the  fifteenth  century  and  the  beginning  of  the  sixteenth.  His  Quaestio  de  Antichristo 
was  an  academic  disputation  delivered  at  the  University  of  Erfurt  in  August  i486.  In  it 
Paltz  argues  against  the  orthodoxy  of  two  printed  works:  Annius's  Defuturis 
Christianomm  triumphis  (Goff  A750  sqq.),  which  claimed  that  Mohammed  was  the 
Antichrist;  and  the  pseudo- Augustine  (i.e.  Honore  of  Autun)  De  cognitione  verae  vitae 
(Goff  A1250),  which  denied  the  physical  reality  of  heaven  and  hell. 

Provenance:  George  Abrams,  with  bookplate  (sale  in  our  rooms,  16  November  1989,  lot 

74) 

References:  HC  *1 155;  BMC  ii  604;  Goff  A772 

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ri«  quibP  pacis  tpe  inferuitur* 

CapKulum  quintu  cotines  Dfolationce  fup  bello  feu  ofliclu  et 
cniuerfaliter  fnp  impugnatoe  in  ccmuni. 

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caa  ah?  triftie  De  bell  10  feu  of  liclitbP  immenribus  to 
CUB  perturbat?  Defioerans  confolari  cui  ilia  mcr  pzo 
confolatione  oe  fuis  pucllis  feptem  oeputauit* 

I.COHSIOSP^TIO. 

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68  Johannes  de  Tambaco.  Consolatio  theologiae.  [Strassburg:  printer  of  Henricus  Ariminensis 
(GeorgReyser?),  c.  1478] 

Chancery  2°  (287  x  208mm.),  294  leaves,  44  lines,  Gothic  letter,  2-,  3-,  4-  and  5-line 
initial  spaces,  contemporary  South  German  (Franconian?)  binding  of  wooden  boards, 
blind-tooled  pigskin  spine,  the  leather  extending  90mm.  over  the  boards,  green  edges, 
modern  cloth  box,  contemporary  manuscript  headlines  and  annotations  in  table  at  the 
end,  lacking  two  clasps,  upper  board  split  and  repaired,  upper  joint  repaired,  some  light  damp- 
staining 

FIRST  COMPLETE  EDITION.  Johannes  de  Tambaco  (1288-1372),  from  Dambach,  near 
Strassburg,  was  a  Dominican  of  Strassburg  until  his  appointment  to  a  lectureship  at 
Prague  in  1347. 

This  unsigned  edition  was  assigned  by  BMC  and  Polain  to  Speyer.  It  is  printed  in  the 
type  (4:88G)  which  is  ascribed  by  Ohly  to  Georg  Reyser.  BMC  records  a  copy  presented 
to  the  Kreuzherren  at  Diisseldorf  in  1479. 

Provenance:  Franciscans  of  Wiirzburg,  with  seventeenth-century  inscription  at  head  of 
first  leaf;  E.  Gordon  Duff,  with  inscription;  Laurence  W.  Hodson,  with  booklabel;  John 
Gribbel,  St  Austell  Hall,  with  bookplate 

References:  HC  (+  Add)  *  15236;  BMC  ii  484;  Goff  J436 

£6,000-10,000 
€9,700-16,200 


150 


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69  actual  size 

69  Johannes  de  Tambaco.  Consolatio  theologiae.  Basel:  Johann  Amerbach,  [14] 92 

Chancery  8°  (\36  x  92mm.),  112  leaves,  27  lines  and  headline,  Gothic  letter,  6-line 
initial  on  al  recto  supplied  in  blue  on  a  gilt  panel  with  green  and  pink  leafy  decoration  in 
margin,  4-line  initials  supplied  in  red  and  blue,  2-line  initials  and  paragraph-marks 
supplied  in  red,  crushed  red  morocco  by  A.  &  R.  Maylander,  gilt  edges,  a  few  early 
manuscript  notes  in  margins  and  some  underlining,  initial  on  al  recto  rubbed,  first  few 
leaves  lightly  soiled  in  margins 

One  of  several  abridged  versions  of  the  complete  text.  Amerbach  presented  twelve  copies 
of  this  book  to  the  Basel  Charterhouse  in  1492. 

References:  HC  *  15237;  BMC  iii  754;  Goff  J437 

£2,000-3,000 

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70 

70  Johannes  de  Tambaco.  Consolatio  theologiae.  Basel:  Johann  Amerbach,  [14]92,  1 12 
leaves 

Gerardus  de  Zutphania.  De  reformatione  virium  animae.  [Basel:  Johann  Amerbach], 
1492,  60  leaves,  woodcut  of  Adam  and  Eve  within  a  four-piece  border  on  al  verso 

Bernardus  Claravallensis  (pseudo-)  Meditationes  de  interiori  homine.  [Basel:  Johann 
Amerbach],  1492,  32  leaves 

3  works  in  one  volume,  Chancery  8°  (143  x  100mm.),  27  lines  and  headline,  Gothic 
letter,  2-,  4-  and  6-line  initial  spaces  with  printed  guide-letters,  contemporary  Tubingen 
binding  (Kyriss  workshop  123),  blind-tooled  pigskin  over  wooden  boards,  border  of  a 
hunting  roll,  one  clasp  and  catch,  contemporary  manuscript  notes  including  a  list  of 
contents  on  front  pastedown  and  minor  penwork  additions  to  the  woodcut 

The  woodcut  of  Adam  and  Eve  in  the  Gerardus  de  Zutphania  is  one  of  the  fifty-five  used 
in  Ludwig  Moser's  Bereitungzu  dem  Heiligen  Sakrament,  printed  at  Basel  by  Michael 
Furter,  c.  1493  (GoffM 866). 

Provenance:  Canons  Regular  of  Waldsee,  with  contemporary  inscription 

References:  Johannes  de  Tambaco:  HC  *  15237;  BMC  iii  754;  GoffJ437;  Gerardus  de 
Zutphania:HC  *16291;  BMC  iii  755;  Goff  G171;  Schreiber  4096;  pseudo-Bernardus 
Claravallensis:  HC  *2883;  GW  4032;  BMC  iii  754;  Goff  B404 

£4,000-6,000 
€6,500-9,700 


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71  John  Chrysostom,  Saint.  Homiliae  super  Matthaeum.  Cologne:  Johann  Koelhoff,  the  Elder, 
1487,  140  leaves,  double  column,  45  lines  and  headline,  Gothic  letter,  first  7-line  initial 
supplied  in  blue,  other  2-,  3-  and  5-line  initials,  paragraph-marks  and  initial-strokes  in 
red 

John  Chrysostom.  Libri  II  De  cordis  compunctione.  Manuscript  on  paper,  14  leaves, 
double  column,  49  lines,  two  7-line  initials  in  blue,  heading,  and  initial-strokes  in  red 

John  Chrysostom.  Liber  De  reparatione  Lapsi.  Written  at  Hohenbusch  by  frater  German 
Ruremund,  23  April  1490.  Manuscript  on  paper,  16  leaves,  double  column,  lines,  one 
initial  in  blue,  heading  and  initial-strokes  in  red 

3  works  in  one  volume,  Chancery  2°  (271  x  206mm.),  eighteenth-century  marbled  calf 
over  contemporary  wooden  boards,  fol.  1  of  first  work  remargined,  heavy  staining  in  first 
few  leaves  of  first  work,  some  damp-staining  in  fore-margins,  slight  worming  in  margins  of  last 
few  leaves 

Second  edition  of  the  Homiliae  super  Matthaeum,  preceded  by  Mentelin's  Strassburg 
edition  of  not  after  1466  (Goff  J288).  The  present  copy  is  bound  with  two  signed  and 
dated  manuscripts  of  further  texts  by  John  Chrysostom,  written  by  frater  German 
Ruremund,  Crutched  friar  of  Hohenbusch,  as  recorded  in  the  colophon:  Explicit  liber 
beati  Johannis  Crisostomi  episcopi  contstantinopolitani  de  reparacione  lapsi  -  sive  ad 
amanticum  lapsum.  Serif  turn  Anno  Domini  MCCCCXC  in  festo  Georgii  martins  Post 
pascha  per  me  Germanum  Ruemundensem  fratrem  conventi  altinemoris.  Deo  gracias. 

Provenance:  Crutched  friars  of  Hohenbusch,  with  manuscript  colophon  dated  1490  and 
inscription  at  beginning  of  first  work  dated  1778 

References:  H  *5035;  BMC  i  228;  Goff  J289;  Voull  (K)  647 

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€11,300-16,200 


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fl.i  m.i:  .1  tq.;  ad gfuadedu mclioie  .ic  traquillio 
re  ce  aio.Uerii  vt  confolatio  fit  cumuUmo* :  ec 
buc  libai adiccre infti tin  3  llud  abs  tc  p:iti  m; 
mqiures.&ic  0:0. Si  q"a  re  ad  rcgnu  tcrreftrc  i  iperiu  yocarct: 
atcp  ante  mgrcii  ii  eius  citiitatis:  in  qua  coionadus  crtconu  fta 
bum  otuerrere  ncccfle  cet  :vbi  luti  ac  fimi  pluriniiis:  viatorucp 
tumultus  et  latronu  gturbatioifiunacp  pjeflura  i  anguftia:  nu 
ad  ilia  tnftia  cogitatione  onertcree:  jn  ilia  oia  qualt  nibiledec 
gaudio  i  fpe  regni  cotepncrce:  *per  qua  igif.ineptii  t  tndignu 
eucrrenis  moualibtifqj  rebus  ponturumibil  bus  que  itcri  con 
ciderit cotrabireterni  aiir  regni  fpe  elatu  i  erccturatqj  ad  celoa 
acccrfiturper  fingula  que  in  boc  oiucrfozio  cormgut  tnftia  occt 
dcre  atqj  gnirbari.T>zofecto  eni  oiucrfozip  ac  ftabulo  mbtl  p:e 
fcntis  vite  ftatus  melio:  e  Jdc$  cu  facti  pke  nf i  nobis  idicare 
cuperet:bofpitc0  fcipos  acperegrios  appcllabat:by0  vbis  nos 
erudtctea  *  Icta  fcculi  pntis  t  tnftia  part  metis  altitudine  cote 
nereiatq?  a  terra  longiflunc  remotes.:  tptoanimo  celeftia  am 
bire  atqj  ad  ea  tota  tralTcrre  cogitatto'ne  ,Hge  itaq?  ad  fanctos 
illos  Uemamus  a  3fofepb  ad  Woyfen  ojationem  tranlTcreted 
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ntttir  quidc  getibus  fuis  vt  puriflime  feruitutis  oppzeffts  ^llie 
natus  aiit  a  gttbus  vcl  paretibtts  ignozanftg  a  quibus  genitus 
fiiiflet:p:io2C3  etate  omne  a  barbans  viris  cducaf  :quo  quid  g 
uiusbebjeofmgutariqjpnidetiapjcdito  adotcfceim  potuttco 
tingcrc:  r  ft  rmltcs  ftlius  regis  films  putaretur  ."lion  aute  boc 
foto  angebatur  tile  tunc.Ucniin  Q'  intucretur  gentcm  fuaj  fup 
mis  calamitatibus  oppzimi  gramd'timi  fibi  videbatur.Qui  eni 
pzctcr  illojtim  falutcm:  ne  viucrc  quidcm  neq?  in  oei  hbio  con 
fcribi  paticbatunquando  aule  regie  regniqj  bonis  frui  pottrif 
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poft  tarn  multa  fecula  c,roups:nulluq?  buitifmodt  mifcratiois 
puuilegtumad  iudeos  babetcs  tanta  fubit  nnferatio:ann  ifan 
ttum  tllain  imantmma  iugulatione  audim*  aut  legim0. 


72 

72  John  Chrysostom,  Saint.  De  providentia  Dei  (De  dignitate  humanae  originis).  Alost: 
Thierry  Martens,  22  March  1487/88 

FIRST  EDITION,  Chancery  4°  (201  x  136mm.),  42  leaves,  40  lines,  Gothic  letter,  5-  and  6- 
line  initial  spaces,  vellum  leaf  from  a  later  printed  hymnal  over  modern  boards,  2  tears 
through  text  ofgl  repaired  without  loss,  light  damp-staining  in  a  few  margins,  early 
inscription  and  library  stamp  washed  from  al 

The  only  fifteenth-century  edition  of  this  text,  printed  at  the  third  press  of  Thierry 
Martens,  who  printed  firstly  at  Alost  with  Johannes  de  Westfalia  in  1473,  and  then 
contined  on  his  own  for  a  few  months.  There  then  followed  a  period  of  twelve  years  when 
he  did  not  print  and  may  have  visited  Venice,  before  he  returned  to  Alost  in  i486  and 
continued  to  print  until  1492,  producing  some  fifteen  books.  His  two  main  types  are 
modelled  on  Ratdolt's  Venetian  types. 

Provenance:  Eric  Sexton,  with  bookplate  (sale  Christie's  New  York,  8  April  1981,  lot  4) 
References:  HC  5053;  BMC  ix  127;  Goff  J293 

£10,000-15,000 
€16,200-24,300 


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73 

73  Leonardus  de  Utino.  Sermones  de  sanctis.  Lyon:  Johannes  Trechsel,  14  March  1495/96 

4°  (199  x  137mm.),  222  leaves,  double  column,  53  lines  and  headline,  Gothic  letter, 
printer's  woodcut  device  at  the  end,  first  6-line  initial  supplied  in  red  on  a  green  and 
brown  panel,  3-line  initials  and  paragraph-marks  supplied  in  red  and  blue,  some 
underlining  in  red,  contemporary  blind-stamped  pigskin  over  unbevelled  wooden  boards, 
two  clasps  and  catches,  a  few  early  manuscript  notes  in  margins,  slight  worming  of  fore- 
margins  of  first  and  last  few  leaves  (with  very  slight  loss  of  printer's  device),  occasional  light 
staining,  one  clasp  renewed 

References:  HC  *  161 38;  BMC  viii  298;  Goff  LI 64 

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74 

74  Lichtenberger,  Johannes.  Prognosticatio  latina.  Mainz:  [Jacob  Meydenbach],  8  June  1492 

Chancery  2°  (254  x  196mm.),  36  leaves,  45  lines,  Gothic  letter,  9-  and  1 1-line  woodcut 
initials,  43  large  woodcuts  (3  full-page),  sixteenth-century  German  vellum,  decorative 
borders  and  central  arabesque  stamped  in  black,  some  small  wormholes  in  text  at  the 
beginning  and  end 

Second  Latin  edition  published  in  Germany.  Johannes  Lichtenberger,  a  hermit  named 
after  the  Clairmont  region  of  Alsace  where  he  lived,  was  astrologer  to  Emperor  Frederick 
III.  His  prognostications  relate  to  the  years  1490  to  1567  and  were  calculated  upon  the 
conjunction  of  the  planets  on  25  November  1484.  They  were  first  printed  in  Latin 
probably  at  Heidelberg  by  the  Printer  of  the  'Vocabularius',  after  1  April  1488  (Goff 
L204;  BMC  and  Schreiber  both  assigned  this  edition  to  the  Ulm  press  of  Johann  Zainer). 
Italian  and  German  translations  were  also  printed  in  the  fifteenth  century,  and  the  life  of 
the  text  continued  well  into  the  next. 

The  striking  series  of  woodcuts  was  first  used  in  the  earlier  Latin  edition  (there  with  a 
further  two  cuts  not  used  here),  and  was  then  reused  for  Meydenbach's  German  edition 
printed  barely  a  month  after  the  present  book  (ISTC  il00205500).  The  first  image  depicts 
Ptolemy,  Aristotle,  the  Sybil,  St  Bridget  and  Ramon  Lull,  the  five  people  who  were  the 
inspiration  for  Lichtenberger's  work.  The  cut  on  A4  verso  shows  the  author  kneeling 
before  God  and  below,  on  A5  recto,  line  1 1 ,  Lichtenberger  is  named. 

This  is  the  second  book  printed  by  Meydenbach,  the  first  being  his  Hortus  sanitatis  dated 
23  June  1491. 

Provenance:  Anton  Schiller?,  Convent  of  the  Blessed  Virgin,  Vienna,  with  inscription  on 
title-page 

References:  H  *  10082;  GoffL205;  Schreiber  4500;  Schramm  xv  7;  Klebs  606.6;  Fairfax 
Murray  239;  Zinner  476 

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75  Margarita  davitica,  seu  expositio  psalmorum.  Augsburg:  Giinther  Zainer,  [c.  1475-76] 

Chancery  2°  (297  x  208mm.),  124  leaves,  35  lines  and  headline,  Gothic  letter,  19-line 
woodcut  knotwork  initial  in  margin  of  fol.  i  verso,  12-line  Maiblumen  initial  (partly 
coloured  in  red)  with  floral  extensions  forming  woodcut  in  inner  margin  of  fol.  ii  recto, 
3-line  outline  woodcut  initials,  contemporary  wooden  boards,  modern  cloth  bo\,fos.  ii 
and  viiii  supplied  from  another  copy,  a  few  small  wormholes  in  text  of  first  few  leaves,  several 
small  wormtracks  in  margins  throughout,  repairs  in  upper  margin  of  last  two  leaves  with 
partial  loss  of  a  few  letters  in  each  case,  a  few  other  small  repairs  in  margins,  rebacked  with 
modern  pigskin,  lacking  one  clasp  and  catch 

First  edition.  This  compilation  of  'pearls'  from  the  Psalms  are  largely  based  on  the  great 
commentaries  of  St.  Ambrose,  St.  Augustine  and  Cassiodorus.  The  Psalms  have  always 
been  the  focus  of  a  personal  approach  to  religion,  and  from  early  Christian  times  onwards 
have  served  as  a  source  of  devotion  and  piety.  Said  to  have  been  written  by  King  David, 
king,  priest,  poet  and  musician,  generally  depicted  with  his  harp  in  Home,  through  divine 
inspiration,  the  Fathers  of  the  Church,  as  well  as  later  commentators,  interpreted  them 
more  mystico.  The  fact  that  throughout  the  Middle  Ages  (and  to  this  day)  they  were  sung 
as  the  poetry  of  the  church  on  a  daily  basis,  and  the  fact  that  music  and  metre  were  by 
some  viewed  as  divine  emanations,  was  again  recognised  as  of  great  importance  by 
Renaissance  Neoplatonists  (see  C.V.  Palisca  Humanism  in  Italian  Renaissance  musical 
thought,  New  haven  &  London:  Yale  UP.,  1985) 

This  book,  the  only  recorded  edition  of  this  anonymous,  popular  explanation  of  the 
Psalms,  was  listed  in  Zainer's  second  advertisement  of  c.  1476. 

Provenance:  Henricus,  Nicolaus  and  Leo  de  Alberg,  nobiles,  of  Galen,  near  Regensburg, 
with  inscription  dated  1521;  Jorge  Beristayn,  with  bookplate 

References:  HC  *  10754;  BMC  ii  323;  Goff  M262;  Christ,  Plato,  Hermes  Trismegistus 
(1990)  no.  141 

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76 

76  Martianus  Capella.  De  nuptiis  Philologiae  et  Mercurii  de  grammatica  (edited  by 

Franciscus  Vi tails  Bodianus).  Vicenza:  Henricus  de  Sancto  Ursio,  Zenus,  16 December  1499 

FIRST  EDITION,  CHANCERY  2°  (302  x  204mm.),  124  leaves,  37  lines  and  headline,  Roman 
letter,  3-,  4-,  5-,  7-  and  8-line  initials  with  printed  guide-letters,  printer's  woodcut  device 
at  the  end,  one  diagram  on  g6  recto,  eighteenth-century  vellum,  occasional  early 
manuscript  notes  in  margins,  a  few  small  wormholes  in  text  of  first  and  last  few  leaves, 
slightly  more  extensive  worming  in  some  margins,  some  light  staining  mostly  in  margins,  spine 
slightly  wormed 

Martianus  Capella  (fl.  5th  century  AD)  was  a  native  of  North  Africa  and  an  advocate  at 
Carthage.  His  encyclopedia  of  the  liberal  arts,  written  in  the  form  of  an  allegory  in  prose 
and  verse,  was  widely  used  in  the  Middle  Ages.  It  is  composed  of  nine  books,  the  first  two 
of  which  are  entitled  De  nuptiis  Philologiae  et  Mercurii  and  recount  how  Mercury  gives  his 
bride,  who  is  made  divine,  seven  maidens  each  representing  one  of  the  liberal  arts.  The 
seven  remaining  books  then  contain  the  declamations  by  each  of  the  maidens  on  each  of 
these  arts.  The  seventh  book  relates  to  arithmetic,  the  eighth  to  astronomy  and  the  ninth 
to  music. 

The  earliest  book  to  contain  the  name  of  Henricus  de  Sancto  Ursio  is  an  edition  of 
Juvenal  dated  1480;  he  continued  to  print  until  1507. 

Provenance:  L.S.F.C.S.D.M.H.M.F,  initials  inscribed  on  title-page  with  date  1558 

References:  H  4370;  BMC  vii  1048;  Goff  Cl  17;  Klebs  668.1;  Smith  p.  66;  Stillwell 
(Science)  77 

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77  Nicolaus  de  Blony.  Tractatus  sacerdotalis  de  sacramentio.  [Strass burg:  Johannes  PrussJ,  21 
October  i486 

Chancery  2°  (261  x  193mm.),  76  leaves,  double  column,  45  lines  and  headline,  Gothic 
letter,  one  5-line  initial  supplied  in  blue,  3-line  initials  in  red,  eighteenth-century 
speckled  calf,  light  damp-staining  in  first  9  leaves,  a  few  other  light  damp-stains  in  margins,  a 
few  small  wormholes  in  text  of  first  few  leaves,  an  early  ownership  inscription  on  title  pasted 


Second  edition,  scarce.  Nicolaus  de  Blony  (fl.  1434-1438)  was  chaplain  to  the  Bishop  of 
Posen,  Poland,  and  this  work  was  first  printed  in  Breslau  c.  1475  (Goff  N80). 

Polain  assigned  this  edition  to  the  Basel  press  of  Michael  Wenssler,  and  erroneously 
described  it  as  containing  78  leaves. 

Provenance:  B.F.  Bisping  'paroccie  Harsewinkelensium  sacellanus',  with  inscription  dated 
23  April  1801 

References:  HC  3250;  Goff  N81;  BSB-Ink  N-85;  Polain(B)  2809;  IGI  6798;  Gates  207 

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PVBLII   OVIDII  NASONIS   META 
MORPHOSEOS  LIBER  PRIMVS. 

N  NOVA  PERT  AN  IM VS 

mutatas  dicere  formas 

C  orpora.  du  coeptis(nam 

uos  mutaftis  &  illas) 

A  fpirate  meis:pnmaq? 

ab  engine  mundi 

A  d  mea  perpetuum  deducite 

tempora  carmen. 

A  nte  mare&  terras  :5t 

quod  tegit  ofa  carlu 
V  nus  erat  toto  naturx  uultus  in  orbe: 
Q_  uem  dixere  chaos :rudis  indigeftaqj  moles* 
N  ec  quicq  nifi  pondus  mers  :congeftaq;  eodem 
N  on  bene  lundiarum  dtfcordia  femina  rerum. 
N  ullus  adhuc  mundo  prxbebat  lumina  titan* 
N  ec  noua  crefcendo  reparabatcornuaphoebe. 
N  ec  arcunfufo  pendebat  in  aere  tellus 
P  ondenbus  librata  fuis.nec  brachia  longo 
M  argme  terrarum  porrexerat  amphitrite, 
Q_uac]j  erat&  tellus ullic  dC  pontus  &  aer. 
S  ic  erat  inftabdis  tellus :  mnabdis  unda: 
L  ucis  egensaer.nullifua  forma  manebat. 

0  bflabatqj  alus  aliud:quia  corpore  in  uno 
F    ngidapugnabantcalidis.-humentia  ficcis: 

M  o]hacumduris:fme  pondere  habenria  pondus  4 
H  anc  deus :  &  melior  litem  natura  diremit: 
N  am  cxlo  terras  :&  terns  abfadit  undas: 
E  t  liquidum  fpiffo  fecreuit  ab  aere  crlum: 
Q_  ux  poftq  euoluittcxcoqj  exemit  aceruo: 
D  ilToaata  loas  concordi  pace  ligauit. 

1  gnea  conuexi  uis  &  fine  pondere  cell 

i  micuit:  fummaqj  locum  fibi  legit  in  arcc, 

y  roximuseftaerilli  leuitate:locoqj. 
D  enfiorhis  tellus:elementaq?  grandia  traxit: 

i  t  preila eft grauitate fua.drcunfluus  humor 
V  ltim.apofTedit:folidumq3  coercuitorbem» 
S  ic  ubi  difpofitam  quifquis  futt  die  deorum 

-  ongenem  fecuit:feclamqj  in  membra  redegitt 

5  nncipioterram:nenona:qualisabomm 

3  arte  foret:magm  fpeciem  glomerauit  in  orbis , 


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78  Ovidius  Naso,  Publius.  Opera  (edited  by  Johannes  Calphurnius).  [Venice]:  Jacobus 
Rubeus,  [before  December]  1474 

Median  2°  (331  x  225mm.),  412  leaves,  43  lines,  Roman  letter,  first  10-line  initial 
supplied  in  maroon  on  gilt  panel  with  floral  border  extension  in  gilt  and  gold,  blue,  red 
and  green  paint,  4-,  6-  and  7-line  initials  supplied  in  red  and  blue  with  reserved  white 
decoration,  with  penwork  infill  and  extensions  in  black  and  red,  one  initial  historiated 
with  a  monster,  2-line  Lombard  initials  and  paragraph-marks  alternately  red  and  blue,  red 
headlines  and  capitals  with  yellow  wash,  modern  tan  morocco  by  Zaehnsdorf,  edges  gilt 
from  an  earlier  binding,  a  contemporary  manuscript  index  on  front  flyleaf,  the  first  leaf 
hinged,  occasional  stains 

Third  edition.  The  first  two  editions  were  printed  in  1471,  by  Azoguidus  in  Bologna 
(Goff  O126),  and  by  Sweynheym  and  Pannartz  in  Rome  (Goff  O127),  with  slightly 
different  respective  contents.  The  present  edition  is  apparently  reprinted  from  the 
Bologna  edition.  Its  Vita  Ovidii,  though  left  anonymous,  is  that  supplied  by  Franciscus 
Puteolanus  (d.  1490)  for  the  Bologna  book,  and  the  remaining  contents  are  identical, 
though  in  a  different  order.  Puteolanus  wrote  of  the  Epistola  consolatoria  ad  Liviam  (on 
the  death  of  Drusus,  9  B.C.)  as  'recently  discovered'.  No  manuscript  of  it  before  the  mid- 
fifteenth  century  is  known;  it  is  generally  accepted  as  authentically  ancient,  though  not  by 
Ovid.  Puteolanus  correctly  identified  the  Philomena,  Pulex  and  Nux  as  not  authentic  (on 
the  first,  see  P.  Lehmann,  Pseudo-Antike  Literatur  des  Mittelalters,  1927,  3  sqq.). 

A  terminus  within  1474  for  this  edition  is  provided  by  the  dogal  reckoning:  Nicolo 
Marcello  died  on  1  December  1474.  Rubeus  completed  in  January  1475  an  edition  of 
Virgil  in  the  same  format  (Goff  V166). 

The  illumination  and  rubrication  of  the  present  copy  are  Flemish.  The  Pierpont  Morgan 
Library's  copy  was  decorated,  somewhat  more  elaborately,  in  the  same  shop;  closely 
similar  combinations  of  illumination  and  rubrication  are  found  in  several  of  the 
manuscripts  collected  by  Raphael  de  Mercatellis,  humanist  abbot  of  St  Bavo,  Ghent  (see 
A.  Derolez,  The  Library  of  Raphael  de  Mercatellis,  1979,  especially  no.  10,  acquired  by 
Mercatellis  in  1479).  A  portion  of  Rubeus's  edition  must  have  been  marketed  in  Flanders, 
presumably  via  Bruges,  aimed  at  a  more  or  less  de  luxe  market.  In  Heroides  II  (Phyllis) 
the  missing  lines  18-19  (attested  before  the  printed  tradition  only  in  a  Giessen 
manuscript)  are  supplied  by  an  early  hand,  signed  A.  Tournes  (?). 

Provenance:  Earls  of  Sunderland  (sale  in  our  rooms,  iv,  6  November  1882,  lot  91 1 1); 
William  Morris,  with  the  Kelmscott  House  bookplate;  Richard  Bennet  (by  en  bloc 
purchase  of  Morris's  library,  then  sold  by  him  in  our  rooms,  5  December  1898,  lot  923); 
C.S.  Ascherson,  with  bookplate  and  note  that  he  commissioned  the  present  binding; 
H.R.  Creswick,  with  bookplate  (sale  in  our  rooms,  27  April  1982,  lot  473);  George 
Abrams,  with  bookplate  (sale  in  our  rooms,  16  November  1989,  lot  91) 

References:  HC  12138;  BMC  v  214;  Goff  0 128 

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79  Petrarca,  Francesco.  Trionfi  e  canzonieri  (commentaries  by  Bernardo  Lapini  da  Siena, 
Franciscus  Philelphus  and  Hieronymus  Squarzaficus;  revised  by  Gabriel  Bruno  and 
Girolamo  Centone).  Venice:  Bartholomaeus  de  Zanis,  1 1  July-30  August  1497 

2  parts  in  one  volume,  Super-Chancery  2°  (316  x  216mm.),  135  leaves  (of  136,  without 
initial  blank  leaf)  and  97  leaves  (of  98,  without  final  blank  leaf),  62  lines  of  commentary 
and  headline,  Roman  letter,  4-,  6-  and  9-line  white-on-black  woodcut  initials,  3-line 
initial  spaces  with  printed  guides,  6  full-page  woodcuts  within  woodcut  borders,  Italian(?) 
red  morocco  of  c.  1700,  crudely  gilt  with  small  rosettes  and  fleurs-de-lys,  two  'scallop' 
clasps  and  catches,  modern  cloth  box,  a  few  early  manuscript  notes  and  underlining  in 
text,  a  few  small  wormholes  in  text  of  first  and  last  few  leaves  (one  small  hole  running  through 
text),  some  light  staining,  recased  and  rehacked  retaining  original  spine 

The  six  full-page  woodcuts  of  the  triumphs  of  Love,  Chastity,  Death,  Fame,  Time  and 
Eternity  were  first  used  in  the  edition  printed  by  Giovanni  Capcasa  at  Venice  between  12 
January  1492/93  and  28  March  1493  (Goff  P388).  They  are  copies  of  the  blocks  used  for 
the  1490  edition  printed  by  Petrus  de  Plasiis  Cremonensis  on  22  April  1490  (Goff  P386). 
In  this  copy,  as  in  that  in  the  British  Library,  the  inner  forme  of  sheet  aa3.6  was  mis- 
imposed,  with  pages  6r.3v  instead  of  3v.6r. 

References:  HC  *  12776;  BMC  v  433;  Goff  P392;  Essling  81;  Sander  5606 

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FIRST  EDITION,  Chancery  2°  (289  x  212mm.),  207  leaves  (of  208,  without  initial  blank 
leaf),  double  column,  40  lines,  Gothic  letter,  2-,  3-  and  7-line  initial  spaces,  initials  and 
paragraph-marks  in  red  and  blue,  underlining  in  red,  initial-strokes  in  yellow,  modern 
calf,  note  by  the  rubricator  dated  i486  at  the  end,  early  manuscript  notes  in  red  in 
margins,  modern  calf,  new  endpapers,  note  in  red  chalk  on  verso  of  final  leaf 'Epistole 
Blesensis',  slight  worming  in  inner  margin  of  first  few  leaves 

Peter  of  Blois  (c.  1 130-c.  1203),  statesman  and  theologian,  came  to  England  from  his 
native  France  and  became  Henry  II's  chief  counsellor.  In  1 176  he  was  appointed 
chancellor  to  the  Archbishop  of  Canterbury  and  Archdeacon  of  Bath,  and  in  1 177  and 
1 187  was  sent  on  diplomatic  missions  to  the  popes.  After  the  death  of  Henry  II  in  1 189 
he  entered  the  service  of  Eleanor  of  Aquitaine,  to  whom  he  was  secretary  from  1 190-1 195 
and  was  made  Archdeacon  of  London. 

The  Brothers  of  the  Common  Life  at  Nazareth  Cloister  established  the  first  and  only 
fifteenth-century  press  in  Brussels.  Their  first  book  was  printed  in  1475  and  they 
produced  thirty-five  known  editions  between  then  and  1485,  almost  all  theological  texts. 
Their  earliest  type  appears  to  have  been  supplied  by  the  prototypographer  of  Louvain, 
Johann  Veldener. 

The  type  of  the  present  edition  (la  :100B)  was  in  use  between  1476  and  1481.  The 
present  copy  bears  a  rubricate r's  date  of  i486. 

Provenance:  Benedictines  of  Hasnon,  near  Valenciennes,  with  rubricator's  inscription 
dated  i486;  William  Hutchinson,  of  Eggleston,  with  bookplate 

References:  HC  (+Add)  3240;  BMC  ix  174;  Goff  P456 

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column,  47  lines  and  headline,  Gothic  letter,  first  initial  supplied  in  pink  on  green  panel 
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wooden  boards,  brass  clasp  plates,  modern  cloth  box,  contemporary  manuscript  notes 
and  sketches  in  margins,  clean  tear  in  K6just  touching  the  text,  occasional  light  soiling  and 
browning,  lacking  two  clasps 

Petrus  Comestor's  twelfth-century  schoolbook  of  sacred  history,  Historia  scholastica, 
contains  much  information  drawn  from  rabbinic  scholarship.  It  enjoyed  great  popularity: 
after  it  was  first  printed  in  Strassburg  [not  after  6  February  1473],  printed  editions 
continued  to  appear  until  the  1 540s. 

The  present  copy  contains  several  early  sketches  in  the  margins  of  women,  women's 
heads,  animals,  the  Tower  of  Babel  and  other  subjects. 

Provenance:  Bartholomaeus  of  Lewnpergk  [Lemberg/Lvov?] ,  with  presentation  inscription 
dated  1581  to;  the  priest  Sebastianus  Prachaticaenus;  Antonius  Augustus  Frankowsky, 
parish  priest  of  Putimy  (Bohemia),  with  ownership  inscription  dated  1768;  Martin 
Sch0yen,  sale  at  Sotheby's  New  York,  1 2  December  1991,  lot  33 

References:  H  *5533;  BMC  i  132;  Goff  P463 

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Chancery  2°  (255  x  186mm.),  207  leaves  (of  208,  without  final  blank  leaf),  double 
column,  51  lines  and  headline,  Gothic  letter,  3-,  4-,  5-,  7-  and  8-line  initials  supplied  in 
red,  eighteenth-century  calf,  sides  ruled  in  blind  and  with  fleurons  in  blind,  a  few 
headlines  shaved,  rebacked  retaining  original  spine,  new  endpapers 

References:  H  *5538;  BMC  i  163;  Goff  P466 

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83  Petrus  Lombardus.  Sententiarum  libri  IV.  [Strassburg:  Heinrich  Eggestein,  not  after  1471] 

FIRST  EDITION,  Royal  2°  (397  x  295mm.),  266  leaves,  double  column,  42  lines,  Gothic 
letter,  3-  and  6-line  initial  spaces,  initials  and  headlines  supplied  in  blue  and  red,  initial- 
strokes  and  underlining  in  red,  contemporary  vellum  over  bevelled  wooden  boards,  sides 
ruled  in  blind,  brass  corner-  and  centre-pieces  on  each  cover,  two  contemporary  labels  on 
upper  cover  lettered  with  title  and  pressmark,  several  uncut  edges,  contemporary 
manuscript  signatures  (some  shaved),  occasional  small  wormholes  in  margins,  light  damp- 
stain  in  fore-margin  of  last  few  leaves,  lacking  two  clasps 

A  FINE,  TALL,  MONASTIC  COPY  OF  THE  EDITIO  PRINCEPS  OF  ONE  OF  THE  FOUNDATION 
THEOLOGICAL  TEXTS  OF  THE  MIDDLE  AGES.  Peter  Lombard,  Bishop  of  Paris,  wrote  his 
Sentences  between  1 146  and  1 158  (for  further  discussion  of  the  text,  see  the  sale  in  our 
rooms,  'A  selection  of  printed  books...  the  property  of  J.R.  Ritman',  6  December  2000, 
lot  29). 

The  Sentences  of  Peter  Lombard,  Bishop  of  Paris,  is  one  of  the  most  important  books  of 
the  Middle  Ages.  Written  between  about  1 146  and  1158,  it  was  divided  into  four  books 
by  the  author,  who  also  introduced  the  capitula,  although  the  full  division  into 
Distinctiones  is  somewhat  later,  and  far  from  regularised.  The  subjects  covered  are: 
Book  I  (48  Distinctiones)  The  Trinity  and  attributes  of  God 
Book  II  (44  Distinctiones)  Creation,  grace,  angels,  original  sin 

Book  III  (40  Distinctiones)  Incarnation,  christology,  redemption,  the  commandments  etc. 
Book  IV  (50  Distinctiones)  The  sacraments  (an  excellent  summary  is  given  in  Fr. 
Ghellinck's  article  in  DTC  xii  2  col.  1969-1972). 

Its  success  was  enormous,  although  Lombard's  ideas  on  the  Trinity  did  not  escape 
criticism  and  even  persecution,  notably  from  Joachim  of  Flora,  but  at  the  Lateran  council 
of  1215  he  was  formally  received  as  orthodox:  'Nos  autem,  sacro  et  universal!  concilio 
approbante,  credimus  et  confitemur  cum  Petro'.  The  use  of  the  Sentences  quickly  spread 
to  Germany,  where  he  was  studied  by  Eberhard  of  Bamberg  and  others,  to  France  and  to 
England.  Manuscripts  quickly  found  their  way  into  monastic  libraries:  three  English 
libraries  possessed  texts  before  1200;  he  was  copied  at  Clairvaux  in  1 158  and  other 
Benedictine  and  Cistercian  houses  also  had  the  text. 

Not  only  was  the  text  quickly  diffused  but  before  1 1 76  the  Sentences  were  already 
attracting  commentary,  and  were  taking  their  place  at  the  centre  of  the  Schools,  and  their 
use  by  the  student  members  of  the  great  orders  like  the  Dominicans  and  Franciscans, 
extended  to  the  great  universities:  the  Sorbonne  received  before  the  middle  of  the 
fourteenth  century  50  copies  as  gifts,  and  Merton  College,  Oxford  by  about  1360  had 
fifteen  copies  (Powicke,  The  Mediaeval  Books  of  Merton  College,  Oxford,  1931  pp.  54-55). 

The  Sentences  attracted  numerous  commentaries,  including  those  of  St  Bonaventure, 
Thomas  Aquinas  and  Duns  Scotus.  A  copy  of  Koberger's  1491  edition  of  Bonaventure's 
commentary  on  the  Sententiae  also  from  the  Abbey  of  St  Magnus  at  Fiissen  was  sold  in 
the  first  selection  of  printed  books,  the  property  of  J.R.  Ritman,  sale  in  our  rooms,  6 
December  2000,  lot  31. 

Provenance:  Benedictine  Abbey  of  St  Magnus  at  Fussen,  with  contemporary  ownership 
inscriptions 

References:  H  *10183;  BMC  i  67;  Goff  P479 

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175 


84  Picus  de  Mirandula,  Johannes.  Opera  (Cyprianus:  De  Pascha;  Johannes  Franciscus 

Picus:  Vita  Pici;  edited  by  Johannes  Franciscus  Picus).  Venice:  Bernardinus  Venetus,  de 
Vitalibus,  14  August-9  October  1498 

Chancery  2°  (303  x  207mm.),  262  leaves,  44  lines  and  headline,  Roman  letter,  6-line 
outline  woodcut  initials,  3-,  4-,  5-  and  6-line  initial  spaces  with  printed  guides,  one 
woodcut  diagram  on  kl  recto,  contemporary  blind-stamped  calf  over  wooden  boards, 
borders  of  a  floral  roll  and  an  interlocking  strapwork  roll,  central  panel  filled  with  a 
vertical  roll  of  birds  and  flowers  and  a  small  rosette,  OPERA  MIRAN  stamped  at  head  of 
upper  cover,  two  clasps  and  catches,  brass  corner-  and  centre-pieces  on  covers,  modern 
cloth  box,  slight  worming  in  margins  of  several  gatherings,  title  browned,  some  other  light 
dampstaining,  spine  repaired  at  head  and  foot 

Second  or  third  edition,  reprinted  from  the  first,  which  was  printed  at  Bologna  by 
Benedictus  Hectoris  in  1496  (Goff  P632).  In  addition  to  the  present  edition,  there  is 
another  printed  anonymously  at  Lyon  by  Jacobinus  Suigus  and  Nicolaus  de  Benedictis, 
which  also  reprints  the  colophon  of  the  first  edition;  it  is  dated  by  CIBN  as  not  after 
1498  and  therefore  may  or  may  not  precede  the  present  edition.  The  work  is  edited  by 
the  author's  nephew. 

The  texts  in  this  edition  include  Pico's  famous  manifesto  of  the  Renaissance,  his  Oratio  de 
hominis  dignitate,  in  which  he  refers  to  the  saying  of  Hermes  Trismegistus,  'Man,  Oh 
Asclepius,  is  a  great  miracle'. 

References:  HC  *  12993;  BMC  v  548;  Goff  P634;  Klebs  764.2 

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85  Plenarium.  [German]  Plenari.  [Augsburg:  Giinther  Zainer] ,  4 April  1474 

2  parts  in  one  volume,  Chancery  2°  (269  x  192mm.),  341  (of  342)  leaves,  33  lines  and 
foliation,  Gothic  letter,  full-length  woodcut  initial  in  inner  margin  of  fol.  2  recto,  7-line 
woodcut  Maiblumen  initials,  54  woodcuts  in  the  text,  ALL  WOODCUTS  AND  INITIALS 
COLOURED  BY  A  CONTEMPORARY  HAND,  sixteenth-century  South  German  pigskin  over 
bevelled  wooden  boards,  richly  decorated  in  blind  with  four  rolls,  THE  UPPER  COVER 
OVERSTAMPED  with  numerous  impressions  in  black  of  a  lozenge-shaped  acorn  tool,  pale 
brown  edges,  modern  cloth  box,  lacking  fol.  1  with  woodcut  on  verso  (as  in  almost  all 
copies),  damp-stain  in  upper  margin  of  several  gatherings,  margins  offos.  76-78  (part  2) 
repaired,  occasional  light  spotting,  lacks  two  clasps  and  metal  corner-  and  centre-pieces 

A  FINE  COPY  FROM  THE  ANCIENT  BAVARIAN  ABBEY  OF  ST.  QUIRINUS  AT  TEGERNSEE,  IN  A 
REMARKABLE  BINDING. 

Intended  as  a  devotional  manual  for  the  laity,  and  using  the  liturgical  gospel  texts  which 
were  read  out  loud  at  mass  on  the  Sundays  and  feast  days  of  the  year,  but  here  presenting 
them  for  personal  and  internal  study  and  reflection,  the  Plenarium  is  not  unlike  the 
Speculum  humanae  salvationis  (in  fact  some  editions  contain  part  of  it).  Expounding 
through  Scripture  the  life  of  Christ,  it  is  a  product  of  that  religious  atmosphere  of  the 
fifteenth  century  which  gave  rise  in  the  Low  Countries  to  the  Devotio  moderna,  the 
founder  of  which,  Groote  stressed  the  Gospels  'for  they  contain  the  life  of  Christ'.  It  is 
perhaps  worthy  of  note  that  the  early  editions  of  the  Plenarium  were  like  the  first  edition 
of  the  Imitatio  Christifrom  the  press  of  Zainer  at  Augsburg.  The  present  edition  is  the 
second,  preceded  by  Zainer's  edition  of  the  previous  year  (Goff  E72).  ISTC  lists  forty-six 
editions,  of  which  seven  are  in  Low  German. 

The  colophon  of  the  present  edition  reads  as  follows:  'finiunt  feliciter  Anno  incarnationis 
d[omi]nice  Millesimo  quadringentesimo  Septuagesimo  q[ua]rto  die  ip[s]o  die  mensis...', 
which  ISTC  interpretes  as  '4  April  1474',  which  if  correct  would  give  it  precedence  over 
Bamlers  edition  which  is  dated  20  September  of  the  same  year  (see  lot  86). 

Of  the  dozen  or  so  recorded  copies  of  this  edition,  the  full-page  woodcut  at  the  beginning 
of  the  text  is  known  in  only  a  couple  of  copies.  Its  conjugate  leaf  is  unnumbered  and 
inserted  between  fol.  x  and  xi,  suggesting  that  it  may  have  been  printed  after  the  main 
body  of  text. 

We  know  of  no  other  example  of  a  binding  similarly  overstamped  in  black.  The 
overstamping  predates  the  application  of  the  title-label  (now  faded)  and  the  Tegernsee 
pressmark  to  the  upper  cover.  Loosely  inserted  is  a  postcard  about  the  binding  written  by 
Ernst  Kyriss. 

Provenance:  Benedictine  Abbey  of  St  Quirinus,  Tegernsee,  with  ownership  inscription 
inside  the  lower  board  and  pressmark  label  P  II  3°  pasted  on  upper  cover  (the  Tegernsee 
books  were  removed  to  Munich  at  the  time  of  the  Secularisation  in  1803  and  many  were 
subsequently  sold  as  duplicates);  Dukes  of  Arenberg  (?) 

References:  HC  2317-2319;  Goff  E74;  Schreiber  4946;  Schramm  ii  1 1  &  24,  nos.  300- 
349;  Fairfax  Murray  335 

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86  Plenarium.  [German]  Plenari.  Augsburg:  Jo hann  Bamler,  20  September  1474 

2  parts  in  one  volume,  Chancery  2°  (312  x  218mm.),  368  leaves,  28  lines  and  foliation, 
Gothic  letter,  54  woodcut  Maiblumen  initials,  text  on  fol.  1  verso  printed  in  red,  2  full- 
page  woodcuts  of  the  Salvator  Mundi  on  fol.  1  recto  and  of  the  Entombment  of  Christ 
on  fol.  168  verso,  55  small  woodcuts  in  text,  ALL  WOODCUTS  AND  ALMOST  ALL  INITIALS 
COLOURED  BY  A  CONTEMPORARY  HAND,  contemporary  South(?)  German  calf  over  wooden 
boards  slightly  bevelled  outwards,  decorated  in  blind  with  vertical  rows  of  tools,  a  free 
rosette,  rectangular  flowers,  square  unicorn  and  'maria  hilf  scroll,  at  head  and  foot  are 
three  impressions  of  a  square  tool  of  the  eagle  of  St  John,  the  lower  cover  decorated  with 
the  same  tools  to  a  different  design,  plain  edges,  many  uncut  leaves,  with  contemporary 
manuscript  signatures,  inscription  dated  1541  on  verso  of  final  blank  leaf,  slight  worming 
in  first  and  last  few  leaves  and  in  inner  margins  offos.  161-168  just  touching  edge  of  text, 
short  tear  in  border  of  woodcut  on  fol.  1,  short  tear  at  head  of  fol.  46  in  first  5  lines  of  text, 
light  soiling  in  margins  of  first  few  leaves,  lacking  two  clasps,  both  covers  slightly  worn 

A  FINE,  VERY  TALL  AND  COMPLETELY  UNSOPHISTICATED  COPY  WITH  CONTEMPORARY 
COLOURING. 

The  third  German  edition  of  the  Plenarium,  the  first  to  be  printed  by  Bamler,  who  copied 
the  woodcuts  of  Zainer's  two  earlier  editions.  Two  variants  of  this  edition  exist:  in  some 
copies,  as  here,  the  full-page  woodcut  at  the  beginning  of  part  2  shows  the  Entombment 
of  Christ;  in  others  this  is  replaced  with  a  woodcut  of  the  Resurrection. 

This  is  perhaps  an  Augsburg  binding.  The  unusual  large  square  tool  of  the  eagle  of  St 
John  and  the  rectangular  flower  tool  are  identical,  or  almost  identical,  with  tools 
belonging  to  the  Augsburg  printer  and  binder  Ambrosius  Keller.  The  rosette  (although 
very  similar  to  one  of  Keller's),  unicorn  and  'maria  hilf  scroll  are  not  recorded  in  his  kit 
(see  Ernst  Kyriss,  'Der  Augsburger  Drucker  Ambrosius  Keller  als  Buchbinder',  Gutenberg- 
Jahrbuch,  1952,  176-179,  pis.  XV-XVI,  tools  1 1  and  30). 

References:  C  2318;  BMC  ii  332;  Goff  E73;  BSB-Ink  580,  copy  2;  Schreiber  4947; 
Schramm  iii  5  &  25,  nos.  103-149,  151 

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87  Publicius,  Jacobus.  Oratoriae  artis  epitomata  (Artes  orandi,  epistolandi,  memorandi). 
Venice:  Erhard  Ratdolt,  30  November  1482 

FIRST  EDITION,  Chancery  4°  (174  x  137mm.),  67  leaves  (of  68,  without  initial  blank  leaf) 
leaves,  31  lines,  Gothic  letter,  2-,  5-  and  1 1-line  white-on-black  woodcut  initials,  heading 
on  A2  recto  printed  in  red,  full-page  woodcuts  of  a  tree  of  oratory,  a  mnemonic  diagram 
with  movable  snake  pointer,  another  mnemonic  diagram  composed  of  twenty-five 
animals,  42  woodcut  roundels  of  a  white-on-black  pictorial  alphabet,  ruled  in  red 
throughout,  brown  morocco  by  Matthews,  gilt  edges,  occasional  light  spotting  in  margins, 
rebacked  retaining  original  spine 

FIRST  EDITION.  AN  APPARENTLY  UNRECORDED  VARIANT  ISSUE,  in  which  the  colophon  and 

accompanying  woodcut  of  a  chessboard  are  printed  on  the  recto  of  d8  with  the  verso  of 
d7  left  blank.  In  most  copies  the  colophon  is  printed  on  d7  verso  and  d8  is  blank. 

This  manual  of  oratory  deals  in  particular  with  commonplaces  and  mnemonics. 
Publicius,  a  Spanish  humanist,  lectured  at  Leipzig,  Erfurt  and  Basel  in  the  1460s.  Many 
more  manuscripts  of  his  works  survive  in  northern  libraries  than  Italian  ones,  and  it  may 
well  be  that  Ratdolt's  copy  came  into  his  hands  from  north  of  the  Alps. 

Ratdolt  reprinted  the  present  work  twice:  firstly  at  Venice  in  1485  (Goff  PI 097);  and 
secondly  at  Augsburg  in  1490  (GoffP1098). 

Provenance:  duplicate  from  the  Royal  Library,  Munich,  with  stamps;  H.M.,  with  pencil 
note  recording  purchase  at  the  sale  of  Hamilton  Cole's  Library,  New  York,  8  April  1890; 
Walter  Goldwater,  with  bookplate  (sale  New  York,  ii,  5  December  1985,  lot  108) 

References:  HC  *  13545;  BMC  v  287;  Goff  PI 096;  BSB-Ink  P-868;  Redgrave  31;  Klebs 
816.1;  Essling  292;  Sander  5982 

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88  [Rampigollis,  Antonius]  Compendium  morale.  [Augsburg:  Monastery  ofSS  Ulrich  and 
Afra,  not  after  1473] 

Chancery  2°  (264  x  179mm.),  178  leaves  (of  179,  without  blank  fol.  9),  38  lines,  Gothic 
letter,  3-  and  7-line  initials  supplied  in  red,  paragraph-marks  and  initial-strokes  in  red, 
eighteenth-century  vellum,  a  few  early  manuscript  notes  (some  shaved),  light  damp-stain 
in  lower  outer  corners,  a  small  wormhole  in  text  of  last  few  leaves,  a  few  others  in  margins 

The  prologue  to  this  work  is  that  of  the  Aurea  biblia,  sive  repertorium  aureum  bibliorum  of 
Antonius  Rampigollis  (see  lot  89),  but  signed  N.  de  Janua,  from  whom  Hain  created  a 
Nicolaus  de  Janua.  BMC  suggests  rather  that  Antonius  de  Janua,  i.e.  Rampigollis,  or  a 
scribe,  wrote  N  (i.e.  Nomen)  instead  of  his  name. 

The  press  at  the  Benedictine  monastery  of  SS.  Ulrich  and  Afra  was  established  by  Abbot 
Melchior  von  Stamhaim  in  1472.  Most  of  the  books  from  this  press  are  undated,  but 
editions  of  the  Speculum  humanae  salvationis  and  Gregory  I's  dialogues  in  German  were 
printed  in  1473  and  of  Vincent  of  Beauvais's  Speculum  historiale  and  Leonardus  de 
Utino's  Sermones  de  sanctis  in  1474. 

The  present  edition  is  dated  on  the  basis  of  the  Tegernsee  copy  which  was  given  to  them 
in  1473. 

Provenance:  Johannes  Franz  Ecker,  Freiherr  von  Kapfing  und  Lichteneck,  Bishop  of 
Freising  1695-1727,  with  engraved  bookplate 

References:  H  *9359;  BMC  ii  339;  GofTR22 

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89 

89  Rampigollis,  Antonius  [and  Bindo  of  Siena]  Aurea  biblia,  sive  Repertorium  aureum 

bibliorum.  Ulm:  Johann  Zainer,  17 June  1475 

Chancery  2°  (289  x  204mm.),  159  leaves  (of  160,  without  initial  blank  leaf),  34  lines 
and  headline,  Gothic  letter,  3-line  outline  woodcut  initials  coloured  in  red,  paragraph- 
marks  and  initial-strokes  in  red,  contemporary  German  pigskin  over  wooden  boards 
bevelled  outwards,  blind-tooled  to  an  unusual  design  of  a  saltire  decorated  with 
impressions  of  a  foliate  border-tool,  the  other  tools  include  a  lozenge-shaped  crowned 
eagle  displayed,  a  round  rosette,  a  small  square  lion  rampant  and  a  'maria'  scroll,  modern 
cloth  box,  contemporary  signatures  in  red  in  the  lower  margins,  a  few  early  manuscript 
annotations,  some  light  spotting  and  damp-staining,  a  few  small  wormholes  at  the  beginning 
and  end  of  text,  two  clasps  renewed 

The  first  dated  edition,  and  probably  the  editio  princeps,  of  the  Aurea  biblia,  of  which 
only  the  prologue  was  written  by  Antonius  Rampigollis.  The  rest  of  the  text  was 
composed  by  Bindo  de  Senis.  Rampigollis's  prologue  also  appears  in  the  Compendium 
morale  (signed  'N.  de  Janua ,  see  lot  88)  and  the  Figurae  bibliae  (Goff  R23-26). 

Another  unsigned  edition  of  this  work  printed  at  the  Monastery  of  SS  Ulrich  and  Afra  in 
Augsburg  is  dated  [c.  1475].  Zainer  reprinted  the  present  edition  in  1476. 

The  binding  tools  are  not  recorded  in  Kyriss  or  Schwenke/Schunke. 
Provenance:  Jorge  Beristayn,  with  bookplate 
References:  HC  *  13681;  BMC  ii  524;  Goff  R12 

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187 


90  Rolewinck,  Werner.  Fasciculus  temporum  [German] .  Eyn  biirdin  oder  versamlung  der 
zyt.  Basel:  Bernhard  Richel,  31  August  1481 

FIRST  EDITION  IN  GERMAN,  Chancery  2°  (288  x  210mm.),  142  leaves,  43  lines  (variable), 
Gothic  letter,  12  woodcuts  in  the  text  (including  4  repeats),  numerous  woodcut  roundels 
enclosing  typeface,  contemporary  wooden  boards,  one  clasp  and  catch,  contemporary 
inscription  'fassiculus  tpm  deutsch'  at  head  of  initial  blank  leaf,  final  leaf  repaired  in  inner 
margin  with  loss  of  some  letters  in  each  line  (supplied  in  pen  facsimile),  a  few  small  wormholes 
with  loss,  mostly  in  the  first  and  last  few  leaves  (one  in  inner  margin  extending  through  several 
gatherings  with  occasional  minimal  loss),  upper  outer  corner  offol.  99  lacking  (paper flaw), 
rebacked  with  modern  blind-stamped  calf,  clasp  mounting  renewed 

THE  FIRST  EDITION  IN  GERMAN  OF  ROLEWINCK'S  CELEBRATED  WORLD  HISTORY.  Werner 
Rolewinck  (1425-1502)  inhabited  the  Cologne  Charterhouse  for  more  than  fifty  years. 
The  Fasciculus  temporum  was  first  printed  in  Latin  at  Cologne  by  Arnold  ther  Hoernen  in 
1474  (Goff  R254)  and  at  least  another  twenty  editions  followed  in  the  fifteenth  century 
(including  one  printed  by  Richel  the  year  after  the  present  edition,  Goff  R267).  A  Dutch 
translation  was  first  printed  at  Utrecht  in  1480  and  a  French  translation  at  Geneva  in 
1495. 

The  Fasciculus,  like  the  famous  Liber  cronicarum  of  Hartmann  Schedel,  is  a  'world 
history',  beginning  with  the  Creation,  and  passing  through  biblical,  classical  and  medieval 
times,  right  up  to  the  contemporary  period.  It  synthesises  two  chronological  systems,  that 
of  Creation  in  the  year  1  continuing  up  to  6673,  and  that  also  treating  the  birth  of  Christ 
as  the  year  1  and  working  backwards  (BC)  and  forwards  (AD),  in  which  scheme  the  BC 
dates  are  printed  upside  down.  The  work  is  horizontally  presented.  On  f.  [61]  verso  the 
birth  of  Christ  (on  the  verso  of  the  leaf  with  the  woodcut  of  the  city  of  Cologne)  is 
printed  as  an  announcement  in  the  middle  of  the  page  within  a  border,  forming,  as  it 
were,  a  firm  break  in  the  history  of  the  world. 

The  eight  woodblocks,  which  appear  to  be  copied  from  those  cut  for  the  Cologne  edition 
of  1476  printed  by  Conradus  de  Hoemborch  and  from  one  of  Ratdolt's  Venice  editions, 
depict  Noah's  Ark,  the  Tower  of  Babel,  the  Temple  of  Solomon,  and  four  small  town 
views,  including  one  of  Cologne  showing  boats  on  the  Rhine. 

References:  HC  *6939;  BMC  iii  738;  Schreiber  5121;  Goff  R281 

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188 


91 

91  Rolewinck,  Werner.  Fasciculus  temporum.  [Strassburg:  Johann  Priiss,  not  before  1490] 

Chancery  2°  (280  x  196mm.),  96  leaves  (of  98,  without  2  final  blank  leaves),  49  lines 
and  headline,  Gothic  letter,  woodcut  of  a  blind  pilgrim  on  verso  of  title,  17  small 
woodcuts  (including  repeats)  and  numerous  woodcuts  diagrams  and  roundels, 
eighteenth-century  vellum,  new  endpapers,  a  few  early  manuscript  notes  in  margins, 
inner  margin  of  first  leaf  restored,  some  light  browning  and  spotting,  short  tear  in  lower 
margin  ofF4,  small  repair  in  fore-margin  of  first  and  final  leaf 

The  text  of  this  edition  ends  with  the  death  of  King  Mathias  (Corvinus)  of  Hungary  on  6 
April  1490. 

References:  HC  *6915;  BMC  i  127;  Goff  R275;  Schreiber  5120 

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92 

92  Schott,  Peter.  Lucubratiunculae  ornatissimae  (edited  by  Jacob  Wimpheling).  Strassburg: 
Martin  Schott,  2  October  1498 

Chancery  4°  (213  x  155mm.),  192  leaves,  34  lines  and  headline,  Roman  letter,  Peter 
Schott's  woodcut  device  at  the  end  of  the  text,  modern  morocco-backed  boards,  extracts 
from  Ovid,  Horace  and  others  copied  onto  the  final  blank  leaf  by  the  original  owner  Beat 
Volck,  library  stamp  on  title,  small  wormhole  in  text  of  first  4  leaves,  a  small  tear  affecting 
headline  on  xl  recto 

The  only  collected  edition  of  Peter  Schott's  writings,  edited  posthumously  by  Jacob 
Wimpheling.  Schott  (1458-1490)  was  one  of  the  earliest  members  of  the  circle  of 
Alsatian  humanists.  His  writings  consist  of  verse,  legal  consilia  and  letters,  the  latter 
addressed  to  leading  scholars  of  the  day,  including  Wimpheling,  Johann  Reuchlin, 
Sebastian  Brant,  Geiler  von  Keisersberg,  Rudolph  Agricola  and  Adolf  Rusch. 

Martin  Schott  was  related  to  Peter  and  son-in-law  of  Johann  Mentelin,  the  proto- 
typographer  of  Strassburg.  His  usual  device  of  a  cabbage  has  been  transformed  into  a 
flourishing  tree  for  this  commemorative  volume. 

Provenance:  Beat  Volck  of  Strassburg,  with  inscription:  Ego  Beatus  Volck  Argentinus 
depositus  sum  a  domino  baccalaureo  Nicolao  Textoris  spirense  Anno  domini  1499  infesto 
sancti  Thome  de  Aquino  ordinis predicatorum;  Heneage  Wynne  Finch,  signature  dated 
1 936  on  flyleaf;  Alfred  Ehrman,  Broxbourne  Library,  with  bookplate  (sale  in  our  rooms, 
ii,  9  May  1978,  lot  594);  George  Abrams,  with  bookplate  (sale  in  our  rooms,  16 
November  1989,  lot  112) 

References:  HC  (+Add)  *  14525;  BMC  i  167;  GoffS321;  Proctor  765;  C.  Schmidt, 
Histoire  litteraire  de  I'Alsace,  ii,  p.  332  no.  54a 

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93  Speculum  Christian!.  London:  William  de  Machlinia,  for  Henry  Frankenbergh,  [c.  1484- 
1485] 

FIRST  EDITION,  Chancery  4°  (183  x  131mm.),  118  leaves,  23  lines,  Bastarda  and  Gothic 
letter,  2-  and  3-line  initials  and  paragraph-marks  supplied  in  red  or  blue,  eighteenth- 
century  mottled  calf,  spine  gilt  in  compartments,  red  edges,  a  few  early  manuscript  notes 
in  margins,  a  few  small  wormholes  at  beginning  and  end  of  text,  further  worming  in  lower 
margins  repaired,  corners  of  binding  slightly  worn 

FIRST  EDITION  of  this  anonymous  religious  treatise  of  the  second  half  of  the  fourteenth 
century.  It  is  erroneously  ascribed  by  Duff,  Goff,  Pforzheimer,  STC  and  others  to  one 
John  Watton  or  Wotton,  who  was  no  more  than  the  scribe  of  a  fifteenth-century  tract 
volume  containing  the  Speculum  Christiani  together  with  many  other  treatises  (Corpus 
Christi  College,  Oxford,  MS  155).  The  text,  of  which  more  than  sixty  extant  manuscripts 
have  been  recorded,  is  divided  into  eight  chapters,  or  tabulae,  devoted  to  the  Athanasian 
and  Apostles'  Creed,  Ten  Commandments,  Seven  Virtues,  and  so  on.  Scattered  through 
the  Latin  text  is  miscellaneous  English  verse  intended  to  serve  as  doctrinal  mnemonics  for 
the  laity.  This  first  printed  edition  added  to  the  text  two  distinct  groups  of  additional 
doctrinalia,  one  group  interpolated  into  Speculum  Christiani  proper,  the  other  added  to  it; 
none  of  the  recorded  manuscript  copies  contains  these  additions. 

The  Speculum  Christiani 'is  largely  derived  from  a  Latin  pastoral  'summa',  the  Cibus 
anime,  'the  parent  of  a  complex  family  of  texts  of  which  the  Speculum  Christiani  appears 
to  have  been  the  most  successful  and  most  widely  circulated. . .  whereas  the  Cibus  anime 
adopts  a  tone  of  tolerant  fraternal  exhortation. . .  the  Speculum  Christiani  is  more  urgent 
and  more  pragmatic,  in  a  manner  typical  of  manuals  aimed  at  the  clergy  and  not  simply 
for  their  use'  (V.  Gillespie,  'The  evolution  of  the  Speculum  Christiani  in  A.J.  Minnis, 
editor,  Latin  and  Vernacular  Studies  in  late-medieval  texts  and  manuscripts,  Cambridge: 
D.S.  Brewer,  1989,  pp.  39-62  (with  a  complete  list  of  surviving  manuscripts  and  of  the 
printed  editions). 

This  edition  shares  paper  stocks  with  several  Caxton  editions  dated  or  datable  to  1484- 
1485,  notably  Mallory's  Morte  d' Arthur,  completed  by  Caxton  on  22  July  1485. 
Machlinia  printed  his  edition  'at  the  instance  and  expenses'  of  an  alien  merchant  of 
London,  Henry  Frankenbergh,  who  is  known  to  have  been  active  in  importing 
continental  printed  books  for  sale  in  England  (see  Nelly  J.M.  Kerling,  'Caxton  and  the 
trade  in  printed  books',  Book  Collector,  iv,  no.  3,  1955,  191  sqq.).  It  may  be  that, 
conversely,  Frankenbergh  exported  some  copies  of  Speculum  Christiani  for  sale  on  the 
continent.  This  copy  was  probably  in  France  from  the  time  of  its  first  sale:  its  rubricator 
was  manifestly  incapable  of  supplying  initials  competently  to  the  English  passages. 
Speculum  Christiani  was  not  reprinted  in  England,  but  there  were  at  least  six  Parisian 
editions  of  the  late  fifteenth  and  early  sixteenth  centuries  (cf.  Shaaber  W-141  to  146), 
derived  from  Machlinia's  edition  but  omitting  the  English  portions. 

Provenance:  Paul  Beuvain  de  Beausejour,  Archbishop  of  Toulouse,  with  bookplate  (sold  in 
our  rooms,  27  March  1972,  lot  155);  H.  Bradley  Martin,  with  bookplate  (sale  Sotheby's 
New  York,  ix,  14  June  1990,  lot  3354) 

References:  HC  14914;  GoffW9;  Duff  415;  Pforzheimer  1097;  STC  26012 

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94  Theobaldus,  Episcopus.  Physiologus  de  naturis  duodecim  animalium.  [Cologne:  Heinrich 
Quentell,  1495] 

Chancery  4°  (200  x  135mm.),  14  leaves,  46  lines  of  commentary,  Gothic  letter,  initial- 
spaces,  modern  vellum,  some  browning  and  spotting 

Theobaldus's  verse  'physiologus'  was  written  in  the  eleventh  century  and  was  first  printed 
in  Antwerp  in  1487.  It  is  composed  of  allegorical  interpretations  of  twelve  animals:  the 
lion,  eagle,  snake,  ant,  wolf,  stag,  spider,  whale,  siren,  elephant,  turtle-dove  and  panther. 

This  is  the  last  of  four  editions  printed  by  Quentell. 

References:  HC  *15468;  BMC  i  295;  GoffT140;  Klebs  956.8;  Voullieme(K)  1131 

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95  Thomas  a  Kempis.  Imitatio  Christi.  [Augsburg:]  Giinther  Zainer,  [before  5  June  1473], 
FIRST  EDITION,  76  leaves.  Goff  HI 92;  PMM  13 

Hieronymus,  Saint.  De  viris  illustribus  (with  continuation  of  Gennadius  of  Marseilles). 
37  leaves.  Goff  HI  92 

Hieronymus  (pseudo-)  De  essentia  divinitatis  (Thomas  Aquinas:  Summa  de  articulis 
fidei).  16  leaves.  Goff  HI  79 

Augustinus,  Saint.  De  animae  quantitate.  29  leaves.  Goff  Al 225 

Augustinus.  Soliloqiua  (Anon.:  Speculum  peccatoris).  28  leaves.  Goff  A1333  &  1337 

[Theobaldus  subprior]  Errores  iudaeorum  (Probationes  NoviTestamenti).  12  leaves.  Goff 
E106 

Bartholus  de  Saxoferrato.  Processus  iudicarius.  10  leaves.  Goff  PI  001 
Gerson,  Jean.  Donatus  per  allegoriam  traductus.  8  leaves.  Goff  G221 
[Nider,  Johannes]  Liber  de  arte  moriendi.  21  leaves.  Goff  Al  089 

9  works  in  one  volume,  Chancery  2°  (285  x  196mm.),  35  lines,  Gothic  letter,  3-,  5-  and 
6-line  initials  supplied  in  red,  title-slip  of  12  lines  (85  x  190mm.)  bound  at  the  beginning 
with  text  on  recto  (originally  reversed,  with  text  on  verso),  calf  over  unbevelled  wooden 
boards,  blind-stamped  in  the  gothic  style,  brass  corner-  and  centre-pieces,  morocco- 
backed  box,  contemporary  manuscript  headlines  and  occasional  marginal  notes  in  some 
works  only,  a  few  small  wormholes  in  text,  spine  repaired  at  head  and  foot,  a  remboitage 

FIRST  EDITION  OF  THE  'iMITATIO  CHRISTl'  THE  MOST  INFLUENTIAL  DEVOTIONAL  TEXT  OF 
THE  LATER  MIDDLE  AGES.  The  Imitatio  has  remained  among  the  most  read  and  printed 
classics  of  Christian  spirituality,  printed  in  a  huge  number  of  editions  (more  than  3000 
are  recorded),  in  many  formats  and  languages.  AN  OUTSTANDING  COPY  BOUND  WITH  8 
OTHER  CONTEMPORARY  THEOLOGICAL  TRACTS. 

The  Imitatio  is  made  up  of  four  independent  treatises:  Admonitiones  adspiritualem  vitam 
utiles,  Admonistiones  adinterna  trahentes,  Devota  exhortatio  adsacram  communionem,  Liber 
internae  consolationis,  consisting  of  25,  12,  59  and  18  chapters.  It  takes  its  title  from  the 
title  of  the  first  chapter  of  Book  I:  '  Incipit  libellus  consolatorius  ad  instructorum 
devotorum  cuius  primum  capitulum  est  de  imitatiuone  christi  &  contempotu  damni 
vanitatum  mundi.  Et  quidam  totum  libellum  sic  appellant.  Sicilicet  libellum  de 
imitatione  christi.  Sicut  evangelium  Mathei  appellatur  liber  generacionis  iehsu  christi  eo 
quo  in  primo  capitulo  sit  mentio  de  generacione  Christi  secondum  carnem...'. 

Written  as  a  model  of  the  spiritual  life  for  the  brethern  of  the  Devotio  moderna,  it  became 
the  most  widely  read  of  all  texts  of  this  movement. 

The  text  was  remodelled  over  a  period  of  about  twenty  years,  and  it  was  only  when 
Thomas  a  Kempis  judged  it  definitive  that  he  added  the  colophon  on  the  last  page  of  his 
autograph  manuscript,  1441 .  But  over  those  twenty  years  the  various  sections  had  been 
many  times  copied,  sometimes  all  together,  sometimes  in  manuscripts  containing  one, 
two  or  three  of  them,  and  some  thirty  manuscripts  dated  before  1441  are  known.  The 
text  was  therefore  well  known  by  the  time  it  was  printed. 


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Even  before  the  death  of  Thomas  a  Kempis,  this  work  was  often  attributed  incorrectly  to 
Jean  Gerson  and  this  false  attribution  persisted  in  many  incunable  editions  and  beyond. 
Zainer,  however,  correctly  attributes  the  text  to  'Thomas,  canon  regular  of  St. 
Agnietenberg  near  Utrecht'.  A  manuscript  of  the  Imitatio  Christi,  dated  1471,  at  Harvard 
University  (fMS  lat.  246),  formerly  owned  by  the  Carthusians  of  Buxheim,  presents  a  text 
very  close  to  that  of  Zainer's  edition;  whether  it  served  as  Zainer's  exemplar  has  not  been 
definitively  shown.  As  in  most  copies,  leaf  3/10  is  here  a  cancel;  the  uncancelled  leaf 
survives  for  example  in  the  New  York  Public  Library  and  Lilly  Library  copies. 

The  Imitatio  Christi  is  one  of  nine  theological  tracts  printed  by  Zainer  in  identical  format, 
c.  1472-early  1473,  and  marketed  together.  The  complete  set  of  nine  is  present  here,  with 
the  Imitatio  Christi  bound  fifth.  Hain  describes  a  complete  set  with  a  rubricator's 
completion  date  of  5  June  1473;  the  Otto  Schafer  copy  of  all  nine  was  acquired  by  the 
Benedictines  of  St  Mang  at  Fiissen  in  1473;  and  a  copy  of  the  first  part  tract,  Jerome  De 
viris  illustrious,  contains  a  rubrication  date  of  1472  (L.  Feinberg  catalogue  4,  1979,  no. 
1).  When  the  entire  group  was  sold  together,  perhaps  ready  bound,  it  was  provided  with 
an  inserted  title-slip  of  12  lines,  listing  the  contents  (present  in  this  copy). 

The  present  volume,  although  perhaps  integral  from  the  eighteenth  century  onwards,  is 
apparently  made  up  from  three  different  copies,  as  indicated  by  variations  in  rubrication, 
presence  or  absence  of  manuscript  headlines,  and  patterns  of  worming,  the  Thomas  a 
Kempis  and  the  Theobaldus  both  appear  to  be  of  separate  provenance  from  the  remaining 
7  tracts.  An  early  owner  of  the  Imitatio  Christi,  Leonardus  Pruckhain,  wrote  several 
marginal  notes  dated  1530,  including  one  referring  to  the  Franciscans  of  Landshut  and 
another  referring  to  an  act  of  witchcraft  in  'flickendorff'(?). 

Provenance:  Imitatio  Christi:  Leonardus  Pruckhain,  priest  of  Chambstorff  (?),  fl.  1530, 
with  inscription;  an  unidentified  religious  house  (perhaps  Unering,  near  Starnberg),  with 
deleted  inscription,  ...B  VMVnelensium  1606;  Augustinians  of  Polling  (Upper  Bavaria), 
with  inscription  dated  1769;  all  parts:  Lucius  Wilmerding,  with  bookplate  (sale  Sotheby's 
New  York,  ii,  5  March  1951,  lot  343);  Charles  van  der  Elst,  with  bookplate  (sale  Ader 
PicardTajan,  13  May  1985,  lot  183;  the  Collection  of  the  Garden  Ltd.,  with  booklabel 
(sale  Sotheby's  New  York,  9  November  1989,  lot  12) 

References:  H  *8589;  BMC  ii  318;  IGI  5106;  Christ,  Plato,  Hermes  Trismegistus  (1990)  no. 
184 

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96  Thomas  a  Kempis.  Die  wahre  Nachvolgung  Christi.  Augsburg:  Anton  Sorg,  20  November 
1486 

Chancery  4°  (202  x  14 1mm.),  198  leaves,  23  lines  and  headline,  Gothic  letter,  4-  and  10- 
line  woodcut  Maiblumen  initials,  contemporary  Nuremberg  binding  blind-tooled  calf 
over  unbevelled  wooden  boards,  outer  frame  of  triple  fillets,  outer  border  with  small 
lozenge-shaped  stamp  of  a  pierced  heart,  central  panel  divided  with  triple  fillets  into 
triangular  compartments  each  containing  the  stamp  of  an  artichoke  (Kyriss  workshop 
113,  Taf.  227,  no.  9),  metal  corner-  and  centre-pieces,  one  clasp  and  catch,  modern  cloth 
box,  a  few  early  manuscript  notes  at  the  beginning,  outer  corner  offol.  1  repaired,  short  tear 
infol.  161,  first  few  leaves  lightly  damp-stained,  rebacked  retaining  some  of  original  spine, 
clasp  renewed 

FIRST  EDITION  IN  GERMAN  OF  THE  'iMITATIO  CHRISTl'.  Although  Goff  places  Johann 
Zainer's  Ulm  edition  earlier,  c.  1480  (Goff  139),  the  type  employed  in  that  edition  was 
not  used  by  Zainer  until  1487.  A  fine  copy  in  a  contemporary  binding. 

In  the  present  edition  the  text  is  treated  as  anonymous.  A  German  translation  was  made 
as  early  as  1434,  and  there  are  several  manuscripts  of  fifteenth-century  Dutch 
translations. 

The  present  copy  contains  an  apparently  unrecorded  setting  of  fos.  106  and  1 12,  in 
which  they  are  misnumbered  'cxii'  and  'cvi'  respectively.  Anton  Sorg,  like  Zainer,  printed 
many  works  in  German  in  this  format.  The  British  Library  copy  has  the  early  sixteenth- 
century  ownership  inscription  of  a  German  nun. 

Provenance:  Augustinians  of  Herzogenburg,  near  St  Polten,  Austria,  with  bookplate  and 
inscriptions;  Rendel  Harris  library,  with  stamp 

References:  HC  *91 16;  BMC  ii  352;  Goff  140 

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97  Trithemius,  Johannes.  De  triplici  regione  claustralium  et  spiritual!  exercitio 

monachorum.  Mainz:  Peter  von  Friedberg,  6 August  1498,  FIRST  EDITION,  98  leaves,  36 
lines,  Gothic  letter,  title  printed  in  red,  initials  in  red 

Trithemius,  J.  De  statu  et  ruina  monastici  ordinis.  [Mainz:  Peter  von  Friedberg,  after  11 
April  1493],  32  leaves,  36  lines,  Gothic  letter 

Trithemius,  J.  De  cura  pastorali.  Mainz:  Peter  von  Friedberg,  [after  1  May  1496],  FIRST 
EDITION,  10  leaves,  36  lines,  Gothic  letter,  initials  supplied  in  red 

Trithemius,  J.  Oratio  de  duodecim  excidiis  observantiae  regularis.  [Mainz:  Peter  von 
Friedberg,  after  28  August  1496],  FIRST  EDITION,  22  leaves,  35  lines,  Gothic  letter,  initials 
supplied  in  red 

4  works  in  one  volume,  Chancery  4°  (212  x  143mm.),  initial-strokes  supplied  in  red 
throughout,  contemporary  South  German  blind-stamped  pigskin  over  wooden  boards, 
metal  corner-  and  centre-pieces,  2  clasps  and  catches,  contemporary  paper  label  on  upper 
cover,  modern  cloth  box,  a  few  small  wormholes  in  margins,  some  light  staining  in  margins 

A  collection  of  four  works  on  monastic  spirituality  byTritheim  (1462-1516),  abbot  of  the 
Benedictine  Abbey  of  Spanheim,  three  of  them  first  editions,  all  printed  by  the  Mainz 
printer  Peter  von  Friedberg.  Of  the  twenty-six  editions  of  Tritheim  listed  by  Goff, 
eighteen  are  from  this  press,  mostly  dating  from  the  mid  1490s.  The  Abbey  of  Spanheim 
is  in  the  diocese  of  Mainz.  Trithemius  became  abbot  on  the  9th  July  1483. 

The  De  triplici  regione  is  an  important  work,  and  in  1499  the  annual  chapter  decided  to 
adopt  it,  together  with  the  Exercitium  Spirituale  of  Thierry  of  Bursfeld,  as  an  official 
book.  For  Trithemius  reading  was  very  important  -  lectio  sacra  mentem  provocat  -  and  his 
own  collections  and  works  bear  testimony  to  this. 

Another  undated  edition  of  De  statu  et  ruina  monastici  ordinis  was  printed  by  Peter  von 
Friedberg  (Goff  T453),  which  BMC  describes  as  the  first  edition. 

References:  De  triplici  regione:  HC  *  1561 8;  BMC  i  49;  GoffT456;  De  statu  et  ruina 
monastici:  Goff  T454;  De  cura  pastorali:  Goff  T436;  Oratio  de  duodecim  excidiis:  Goff 
T449 

£15,000-20,000 
€24,300-32,300 


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pontificcm  majcimu  coitio  in  tibrum  pfalmozfi  quc  alt)  foliloqum 
bicunt  intipit  felidter.a*  Jobanne  be  turre  cremata.  $abmcn(i  epo 
ac  foe  romane  coic  £araiaUa  fen  Sijcti  tulgariter  nucupato  cbita, 

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(ccunbo'pontihd  majdmo*  Johannes  be  turrc 
cremata  Cabmen  epudTancleiomane  ccclcfie 
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pod  bumilcm  recomenoatione  ao  pccu  ofcula 
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fingularitefvel  Fecu  tantum*  quozu  \>tru$  lauoati  couenit  ct  ozari 
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tium  mcDi'dna  verbop«et  amplimma  ccpia  ^irtutu  ao  o;m  anime 
perftcltone*  ut  mcrito  aptcc  pzopbctc  illuo  p9»c«i*  pabunoatia  in. 
tumbus  tuia  •  ic  c  in  pfalmis  tuia«q  rcfte  turrea  afpiUari  pnt»^u 
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98 

98  Turrecremata,  Johannes  de.  Expositio  super  toto  psalterio.  [Augsburg:]  Jo hann  Schussler,  6 
May  1472,  134  leaves  (of  136,  without  2  blank  leaves),  35  lines,  Gothic  letter,  2-  and  6- 
line  initials,  paragraph-marks,  initial-strokes  and  underlining  in  red 

Bible.  Latin.  Gospel  of  St  Matthew.  Manuscript  on  paper,  24  leaves,  double  column, 
initials,  headings,  and  initial-strokes  in  red,  [last  quarter  of  the  fifteenth  century] 

Manuscript  [begins:]  'Alpha  et  omega  principium  et  finis  Deus  omnipotens',  manuscript 
on  paper,  47  leaves,  double  column,  initials,  and  initial-strokes  in  red,  [last  quarter  of  the 
fifteenth  century] 

3  works  in  one  volume,  Chancery  2°  (307  x  215mm.),  contemporary  blind-stamped  calf 
over  wooden  boards,  slight  worming  in  upper  outer  corner  of  first  few  leaves,  one  leaf  soiled, 
rebacked,  library  stamps  erased 

Juan  deTorquemada  (1388-1468),  Dominican  and  Cardinal,  uncle  of  the  Spanish  Grand 
Inquisitor  Tomas  de  Torquemada,  played  an  important  role  at  the  councils  of  Basel 
(1432-1437)  and  Florence  (1439).  His  commentary  on  the  Psalms  was  first  printed  by 
Ulrich  Han  at  Rome  in  1470. 

The  present,  third  edition  of  this  commentary  is  reprinted  from  Schiissler's  undated 
edition,  printed  not  after  1471.  The  text  of  Schiissler's  editions  is  based  on  a  different 
manuscript  from  that  used  by  Han.  The  present  edition  corrects  the  textual  disorder  in 
quires  1 1  and  12  that  exists  in  Schiissler's  earlier  edition;  there  are  also  a  few  changes  in 
the  setting  of  the  final  leaf. 

The  second  of  the  two  manuscript  texts  appears  to  be  the  'Postilla  Gratiae  dei  dicta'  by 
Johannes  Milicius,  a  manuscript  of  which  exists  in  Budapest  (Univerzitna  Kniznica,  Lat. 

42). 

References:  HC  *  15696;  BMC  ii  329;  GoffT519 

£40,000-50,000 
€64,500-81,000 


204 


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pefHJc          - 


mittaintncc  pstltna  pmdofc  toarmcctcmpb  rdiqmf . 
£-  *  cd  m  leg*  oiii  firit  wltitas  cui6)ut  tntihic  !cgi's  m.in; 
bata'pfi0at(cttntcgv  coi6).idtmplcnda([mcdttaoir  nffi 
Oucmj)  (peri  &im  adiicrfisDno  tantum  fcdionclegis  fed 
iugi  obFuaooncranctitaris.^-^  tcritfancpliytiumqv> 
plantato  c  fccue  flucnfa  aquar«5viro:c0mc  gnatt*  icmp 

Jviuus 'qw  teno^-operurt  plcnitudmcfi:aidu8(Fruchi3 
fcabtt  trmpcvite  fuc?tM^nii  feliafatis  etpfnc. 
^Jrwrbactu8n6lrfliKt)avmfntrmmcdadii'ncmcari 
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otnmraqdiiiqjfad«tfp<prpctabii«r)fibi  ad  oolecutt'oncm 
vice  ctemc.j_  'von  fie  hnpti  no  fie  fed  tanq'  pulins^mfrnl 


at  afaa'Oftabilitatis  ctrrne. T'jCtco^qzftitficputuisrno 
nrinettir.'qt  no  crcdcwe  pjm'a  errttfrnnrs  iamiudieao.  lunt 


no^nrefurgvrCm  c6grcgiac6ncrafK);ii)q:  no  admittctiir 
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(urn  «•  triftc  tedticcns  m  pjrdittoncm. 


99 

99  Turrecremata,  Johannes  de.  Expositio  super  toto  psalterio.  Mainz:  Peter  Schoeffer,  11 
September  1474 

Chancery  2°  /Royal  4to  in  half-sheets  (313  x  215mm.),  173  leaves,  35  lines,  Gothic 
letter,  colophon  and  printer's  device  printed  in  red,  first  2  initials  supplied  in  blue  and  red 
with  leafy  red  penwork  extensions,  2-  and  3-line  initials  and  paragraph-marks  in  red  and 
blue,  initial-strokes  and  underlining  in  red,  CONTEMPORARY  ERFURT  BINDING  BY 
CONRADUS  DE  ARGENTINA,  blind-stamped  calf  over  wooden  boards,  sides  ruled  in  blind, 
stamped  with  tools,  brass  corner-pieces,  plain  edges,  modern  cloth  box,  several  small 
wormholes  in  first  few  leaves,  a  few  at  the  end,  some  worming  on  upper  board,  lacking  10 
metal  bosses  and  2  clasps,  small  neat  repairs  to  joints  and  at  head  and  foot  of  spine 

Fourth  edition  of  Turrecremata's  commentary  on  the  psalms,  the  text  being  that  used  in 
the  editio  princeps  printed  by  Ulrich  Han  at  Rome  in  1470.  The  second  and  third 
editions,  both  printed  by  Sch ussier  in  Augsburg  [not  after  1471]  and  6  May  1472  (see 
previous  lot),  derive  from  a  different  manuscript  of  the  text. 

The  psalm  incipits  are  printed  in  the  smaller  of  Fust  and  Schoeffer's  two  Psalter  types, 
while  the  text  type  is  that  used  in  their  1462  Bible.  The  broad  printed  versal  initials  of  the 
present  edition  were  based  on  those  used  by  Han  for  his  edition.  They  are  not  used  in  the 


205 


first  quire,  in  the  second  quire  in  the  inner  formes  only  and  from  the  third  quire  onwards 
in  all  formes. 

Like  the  British  Library  and  Pierpont  Morgan  Library  copies,  the  present,  unusually  tall 
copy  has  Royal  half-sheets  of  paper  in  quire  17  (bifolia  2.1 1,  4.9,  5.8  and  6.7);  and 
additionally  in  this  copy  in  quire  15  (bifolia  4.7  and  5.6). 

The  binding  is  apparently  from  the  Erfurt  workshop  of  Conradus  de  Argentina,  active 
late  1460s  to  mid- 1470s;  a  litte  over  a  dozen  examples  of  his  work  are  recorded.  In  about 
1475  Conradus  apparently  moved  back  to  Strassburg,  where  his  tools  merge  with  those  of 
Kyriss's  shop  147  (Michael  Laird,  Bulletin  du  bibliophile,  1998,  7-36).  The  present 
volume  stands  chronologically  more  or  less  at  the  crux  of  that  move,  and  is  conceivably 
Conradus's  Strassburg  work,  but  the  brass  corner-pieces  hint  at  Erfurt  as  the  likelier  place. 

Provenance:  Sir  Thomas  Phillipps,  with  his  printed-book  number  label  887  on  spine; 
Raymond  and  Elizabeth  Hartz,  sale  Sotheby's  New  York,  12  December  1991,  lot  197 

References:  H  *  15698;  BMC  i  31;  GoffT520 

£50,000-60,000 
€81,000-97,000 


206 


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tnaoilataoucrfacoc  trafiujr^.a  q 
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frabit  trmpc  vi  tHucQpi  gnu  fehdratre  ctrrnc; 

no  fceflutt)a\ritats  i  mcdaaTi/ncfnafe 
ct 


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no 


dr  af  aa'cjOabidfaris  ctcrnc* 


(no  rcfurg-ct  hiipti^fe;  mfiddcgiCiii  uidicD^ifculTiomf 
Wtcjcamhictu^qi  no  crGtrtcs  pcmeccrdnmiis  iawdica 
^ito  filt^n(?q5  pccotcg^^fclTtonc  xpiani/0  mincwite  pccif 
ebnoyn  rcrurfrctCniQfrrcg-ac6ciiifto;uj)qt  no  admit- 
csnmr  ad  vita  ctrrna  ad  qua  uifH  cogrcg-abutur. 
<r%  uoniam  nouitDnsQ  no  tin  a  ai 


100 


207 


100  Turrecremata,  Johannes  de.  Expositio  super  to  to  psalterio.  Mainz:  Peter  Schoeffer,  10 
March  1476 

Chancery  2°  (273  x  204mm.),  197  leaves  (of  199,  without  the  two  blank  leaves),  31 
lines,  Gothic  letter,  colophon  and  device  printed  in  red,  first  initial  in  red  with  blue 
penwork  decoration,  second  initial  in  blue  with  red  penwork,  2-line  initials,  paragraph- 
marks,  initial-strokes  and  underlining  in  red,  modern  brown  morocco,  red  edges  from  an 
earlier  binding,  contemporary  manuscript  foliation,  some  leaves  with  brown  stains  from 
removal  of  marginal  leather  tabs 

Sixth  edition:  a  reprint  of  Schoeffer's  1474  edition  (see  lot  99).  The  large  titling  capitals 
were  copied  from  those  used  by  Ulrich  Han  in  his  editio  princeps  of  Turrecremata  (Goff 
T517).  The  headings  are  set  from  the  smaller  fount  of  the  1457  Psalter.  In  quire  8,  the 
compositor  skipped  a  page  of  copy  when  setting  the  outer  forme  of  sheet  3.  This  was 
rectified  by  the  insertion  of  a  single  leaf  between  fols.  2  and  3,  with  22  lines  on  its  recto, 
and  14  on  its  verso.  These  lines  were  set  to  a  narrower  measure  than  the  standard  page. 
Fol.  8/2  verso  was  also  set  3  lines  short,  implying  that  the  order  of  composition  was  from 
the  middle  of  the  quire  outward.  The  red-ink  colophon  and  device  were  printed  in  a 
separate,  second  impression. 

Provenance:  Albert  Ehrmann,  Broxbourne  Library  (sale  in  our  rooms,  ii,  8  May  1978,  lot 
349);  George  Abrams  (sale  in  our  rooms,  16  November  1989,  lot  124) 

References:  HC  *  15699;  GoffT522;  CIBN  T379 

£30,000-50,000 
€48,500-81,000 


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a  t>ic  marcij  pp 
eft-confumara. 


100 


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peccatieobnojcurefurgctin  p0re 


tentur  ad  vita  eterna  ad  qua?  iwfti 
eon^regabunrur 

iA&iioniam  nonitoonimus 
noincia  appwbariote  viani  itllto 
flint  vtputc  quta  mil  da  fpletidida  i 
t«lectabili0>.q:  ejcpcdira  via  ad  bea- 
ntuduieni  iter  auton  tmptccuj. 
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ceduceneinedittcme. 


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litee  cruciftto:e0  ipi  et  pcpuli  itt 
oco»mcditati  runt  mania  ere 
oentc0  B  cb:ifti  nionent  qxingut  re 
nomc  i  fama  i  regnu  cm0. 


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101 

101  Turrecremata,  Joannes  de.  Expositio  super  toto  psalterio.  Strassburg:  [Printer  of  the  1481 
Legenda  Aurea],  23  April  1482 

Chancery  2°  (286  x  203mm.),  125  leaves  (of  126,  without  initial  blank  leaf),  double 
column,  42  lines,  Gothic  letter,  4-,  7-  and  9-line  initials  in  red,  paragraph-marks  and 
initial-strokes  in  red,  red  morocco  by  Riviere  &  Son,  gilt  edges,  2  small  wormholes  in  text 
of  first  2  leaves,  a  few  others  in  margins  of  first  few  leaves,  a  few  repairs  in  margins  of  first  2 
leaves,  scratch  on  upper  cover  repaired 

A  scarce  edition. 

Provenance:  Bibliothek  Oberherrlingen,  with  bookplate  dated  1839 

References:  H  *  15703;  BMC  i  97;  GorTT527 

£6,000-10,000 
€9,700-16,200 


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102 


102  Turrecremata,  Johannes  de.  De  efficacia  aquae  benedictae.  [Augsburg:  Anton  Sorg,  c. 
1475] 

Chancery  2°  (280  x  198mm.),  8  leaves,  38  lines,  Gothic  letter,  3-  and  5-line  initial 
spaces,  modern  morocco-backed  boards,  slipcase 

Presumed  second  edition.  The  Efficacia  aquae  benedictae  was  printed  by  Bartholomaeus 
Guldinbeck  at  Rome  in  an  edition  30  August  1475.  Sorg  printed  a  second  undated 
edition  in  the  following  year. 

Provenance:  Georg  Kloss,  with  bookplate;  Society  of  Writers  to  her  Majesty's  Signet, 
Edinburgh,  with  bookplate;  Alex  Bridge,  with  bookplate 

References:  H  *  15739;  BMC  ii  342;  GofTT508 

£10,000-15,000 
€16,200-24,300 


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211 


103  Turrecremata,  Johannes  de.  Questiones  evangeliorum  de  tempore  et  de  sanctis  (Nicolaus 
de  Byard.  [Dictionarius  pauperum]  Flos  theologiae  sive  Summa  de  abstinentia). 
[Strassburg:  Printer  ofthejordanus  de  Quedlinburg  (Georg  Husner),  c.  1487],  292  leaves, 
double  column,  47  lines  and  headline,  gothic  letter,  3-,  4-  and  5-line  initials,  paragraph- 
marks  and  initial-strokes  in  red 

Corona  Beatae  Virginis  Mariae.  [Strassburg:  Printer  ofthejordanus  de  Quedlinburg  (Georg 
Husner),  not  after  1488],  86  leaves,  double  column,  47  lines  and  headline,  gothic  letter,  4- 
and  7-line  initials,  paragraph-marks  and  initial-strokes  in  red 

2  works  in  one  volume,  Chancery  2°  (298  x  217mm.),  contemporary  blind-stamped  calf 
over  unbevelled  wooden  boards,  outer  border  composed  of  alternating  tools  of  a  four- 
leaved  flower  and  a  lion  passant,  central  panel  ruled  to  a  diaper  pattern,  with  alternating 
rows  of  small  fleurs-de-lys  and  rosettes,  four  metal  bosses  on  each  cover,  2  clasps  and 
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work  misbound  with  contemporary  manuscript  note  recording  the  error  on  b3,  rebacked 
retaining  original  spine 

The  Flos  theologiae,  or  Dictionarius  pauperum,  is  attributed  to  Nicolaus  de  Byard.  It  was 
first  printed  with  five  of  the  thirteen  incunable  editions  of  Turrecremata  s  Quaestiones,  and 
therefore  by  association  is  often  attributed  to  Turrecremata  himself.  The  Quaestiones  were 
first  printed  at  Rome  by  Johannes  Schurener  de  Bopardia  in  1477  (GoffT544). 

Provenance:  Franciscans  of  Bielefeld,  with  inscription  on  first  page;  Hans  Furstenberg, 
with  booklabel 

References:  Turrecremata:  HC  *15713;  BMC  i  136;  GoffT554;  Corona  BMV:  HC  *5746- 
GW  7573;  BMC  i  136;  GoffC923 

£12,000-15,000 
€19,400-24,300 


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104  Ubertinus  de  Casali.  Arbor  vitae  crucifixae  Jesu.  Venice:  Andreas  de  Bonetis,  12  March 
1485 

Chancery  2°  (265  x  193mm.),  250  leaves,  double  column,  58  lines  and  headline,  Roman 
letter,  3-,  6-  and  8-line  initial  spaces,  initials  and  paragraph-marks  supplied  alternately  in 
red  and  blue,  seventeenth-century  Spanish  vellum,  title  lettered  in  ink  on  spine,  several 
early  manuscript  notes  in  margins,  tear  in  the  first  6  lines  of  text  ofc8  without  loss,  some 
light  staining  in  margins,  lower  hinge  broken 

The  Franciscan  Ubertinus  de  Casali  wrote  his  Arbor  vitae  crucifixae  Jesu,  a  meditation  on 
the  Passion,  in  1305.  This  is  the  only  fifteenth-century  edition  of  the  work. 

References:  HC  *4551;  BMC  v  361;  Goff  U55 

£2,500-3,000 
€4,050-4,850 


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abi  <^uob  piailcnnKis  fancti 
angdi  abmiftci  fdr.int  ?na»ii 
frft-u  pl^lnnft  i  rbi  apt 
•eunt  pdripcs  ibcft  angcli 
iam  plaUctitib?  vnbe 
rftncpcoptci  ncftta 
agcli  rcccbat  Sli  cm  bmii  fcws 
ft  a  nobte  clongaiicmit  V" 
jxtus  malozuquie  fultincbit 


105 

105  [Walafridus  Strabo]  Scriptum  compendiosum  Psalterii  intentionem  declarans.  [Basel: 
Johannes  Solidi  (Schilling),  c.  1472-1474] 

Chancery  2°  (287  x  210mm.),  30  leaves,  double  column,  38  lines,  Gothic  letter,  3-,  4- 
and  6-line  initials  supplied  in  red  outling,  initial-strokes  in  red,  modern  vellum-backed 
boards,  a  few  early  manuscript  notes,  slight  worming  in  some  inner  margins,  some  light 
damp-staining 

The  press  of  Johannes  Schilling,  formerly  located  in  Cologne,  is  now  reassigned  by 
Dalbanne  and  Droz  to  Basel.  See  Paul  Needham,  Corsten  Festschrift,  pp.  126-127.  None 
of  the  books  printed  by  Schilling  at  Basel  is  dated,  but  the  Uppsala  copy  of  the  Albertus 
Magnus  has  a  purchase  inscription  dated  1473  and  the  Hain  copy  of  the  Leonardus  de 
Utino  a  purchase  inscription  dated  1474.  Schilling's  first  set  of  matrices  are  almost 
identical  to  those  used  by  the  Printer  of  the  Flores  Sancti  Augustini  c.  1472. 

References:  H  *  14571;  BMC  i  237;  Voullieme  (K)  1 108;  Claude  Dalbanne  and  Eugenie 
Droz,  Limprimerie  a  Vienne  en  Dauphine  au  XVe  siecle,  Paris,  1 930,  V 

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€9,700-12,900 


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HONOR, 


Duodecim  ccrtamina  Herculis. 


Rofcom  wuiftifhper<ttfocun<lia  laudcf. 
Diftft  Sopbifhrum  kquebstyrefol 
Norc  furor,4Ut  rabies  uirtutc  potentior  ufl<t  eft. 
Continutmob  curfwmfapienti  opukntwmiit. 

Spcrnit 


SIXTEENTH  AND  SEVENTEENTH  CENTURIES 

106  Alciati,  Andrea.  Emblemata.  Lyons:  Mathieu  Bonhomme,  1550 

8°  (190  x  1 17mm.),  title  within  architectural  woodcut  border,  197  woodcut  emblems,  14 
small  woodcuts  of  trees,  each  page  within  a  woodcut  border,  red  morocco  by  Trautz- 
Bauzonnet,  gilt  edges,  some  light  spotting 

The  emblems  of  the  Italian  humanist  and  jurist  Andrea  Alciati  (d.  1550)  were  first 
published  in  1531  and  enjoyed  enormous  popularity  during  his  lifetime  and  after.  The 
present  edition,  published  by  both  Bonhomme  and  Guillaume  Rouille,  is  the  last  to  be 
printed  during  his  lifetime  and  contains  emblem  no.  97  for  the  first  time.  The  woodcuts 
were  designed  by  Pierre  Eskrich  for  Bonhomme  and  Rouille's  first  edition  of  1548. 

References:  Green  45;  Landwehr,  Romanic  emblem  books,  51;  cf.  Harvard  Catalogue  15  & 
16  ( 1 549  &  1551  editions) 

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107 

107  Alciati,  Andrea.  Omnia  emblemata  (edited  and  commented  by  Claude  Mignault). 
Antwerp:  Christopher  Plantin,  1581  (1580) 

8°  (168  x  103mm.),  title  within  woodcut  border  and  with  printer's  device,  196  woodcut 
emblems  within  borders,  14  full-page  woodcuts  of  trees,  CONTEMPORARY  PARISIAN 
FANFARE  BINDING,  calf  gilt  a  la  fanfare,  flat  spine  similarly  decorated,  gilt  edges, 
nineteenth-century  morocco  slipcase  and  chemise,  occasional  underlining  in  text,  some 
light  spotting  and  staining 

Claude  Mignault's  commentary  was  first  printed  by  Plantin  in  1573.  Mignault  (1536- 
1606)  was  professor  of  canon  law  at  Paris. 

Provenance:  Leo  Olschki,  with  booklabel;  James  William  Ellsworth,  with  bookplate 
References:  Green  99;  Voet  29;  Landwehr  18 

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Tertia  tephtnte  tempeflas  kta  locab/c 
Quidamaitin  fomnisuifusadefle  fib' 
Pradixiflefuocuidamtunc  ferturamfco: 
Quod  trj's  ad  dies  interiturus  era t. 

Cecropidis  ilium  morti  damnantibus  inquit: 
Etuosfatafimulimperiofa  trahcnt. 

Cum  precii  magniueftem.donaretamicus 
Qiia  fcpelircmr;dumc^recufat;ait. 
An  mini  dum  uiuo  ueft's  mea  conuenit  ( 
Apra  cft:defuncflo  cdngruet  ilia  minus 

Damnato  iniufle  moreris  cum  diceret  uxor. 
Ille  refen.iuftc  me  cupis  ergo  moru 

De  xenophonte  archiaso* 


Enophon  patre  gry  llo  patria  uero  archteus 
expagoactico  diicipulus  fuitSocratis « Flo* 
ruitqjnonagefimacjrca  olympiadeatc^  obu 
iit  corinthiiam  grandis  natu* 

Eiuslententiaefl. 

Ille  cororratus  dum  facrum  redditad  aras 

Accepit  gty  Hi  funera  acerba  fui. 
Atcp  itadcpofea  fercur  dixiAe  corona 

Jam  fcio  mortalem  progcnuifle  mihi. 
Sed  poftquamaudknt  pulchrecccidifle:coronam 

Dclapfumcapiti  compofuiflc  fuot 


108  actual  size 


217 


108  Antonius  Nebrissensis,  Aelius.  Vafre  dicta  philosophorum.  [Salamanca:  Juan  de  Porras,  c. 
1502] 

One  part  only  (of  2),  Chancery  4°  (205  x  152mm.),  30  leaves,  29  lines,  Roman  letter, 
one  4-line  initial  space  with  printed  guide-letter,  3-  and  5-line  white-on-black  woodcut 
initials,  brown  morocco  by  Riviere  &  Son,  gilt  edges,  early  manuscript  foliation  and  a  few 
early  manuscript  notes  in  margins,  lacking  part  2  (see  below),  lightly  washed,  upper  cover 
partly  detached 

RARE:  ONE  OF  ONLY  EIGHT  RECORDED  COPIES.  Traditionally  assigned  by  Haebler,  Vindel 
and  GW  to  the  Salamanca  press  of  the  Printer  of  Nebrissensis,  'Grammatica',  this  edition 
is  more  recently  assigned  by  Norton,  ISTC,  IBE  and  Ruiz  Fidalgo  to  the  Salamanca  press 
of  Juan  de  Porras,  c.  1502.  Norton  and  Ruiz  Fidalgo  describe  the  work  as  containing  52 
leaves,  with  the  second  part  (not  here  present)  containing  Antonius's  commentary.  Of  the 
copies  listed  by  Ruiz  Fidalgo,  that  in  Madrid  contains  only  the  first  part  (as  here)  and  that 
in  Toledo  contains  only  the  second  part. 

The  Vafre  dicta  philosophorum  was  printed  in  at  least  nine  editions  in  the  late  fifteenth  and 
sixteenth  centuries,  in  several  recensions  (see  Antonio  Odriozola,  La  caracola  del  bibliofilo 
Nebrisense,  Madrid,  1947,  51-52).  Based  on  the  'Lives  of  the  Philosophers'  of  Diogenes 
Laertius,  it  comprises  brief  notes  on  Greek  philosophers  followed  by  Nebrija's  Latin 
couplets  on  each.  The  present  edition  may  be  the  only  one  to  include  additional  neo- 
Latin  poetry  by  Nebrija,  including  his  exchange  of  verses  with  Petrus  Martyr  Anglerius 
(1455-1526),  historian  of  the  early  American  explorations. 

Provenance:  Maggs  catalogue  656,  Bibliotheca  incunabulorum,  1938,  no.  395;  George 
Abrams,  with  bookplate  (sale  in  our  rooms,  16  November  1989,  lot  8) 

References:  GW  2244;  Goff  A91 1;  Haebler(BI)  478;  Vindel  ii  227  no.  143;  Norton  463; 
IBE  Post-incunables  36;  Sallander  2040;  Palau  189238;  L.  Ruiz  Fidalgo,  La  imprenta  en 
Salamanca  1501-1600,  Madrid,  1994,  28 

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antfio  vnico:ni.£:aco  vero  fc  teffificatttt  verms  cod  ct  f  gnem  ct  fetozc*  qt  o:c 
mittebatJed  com  os  apcrtrct  vntco:nis  qpcttius  cucarrit  yolens  (plum  in  gut  * 
turetranfuib:are.£>:aci)o  vero  agitaaitcapat'ivnicoims  contain  terrain  fu 
pit  oicens  mo:iendo,©ui  p:o'alto  vult  pugnarc  fe  cupit  trucidare.  ©fc  cm  ftul 
turn  eft  oe  fe  confidcrc  ac  oc  quo  fi&f  no  pertt'nct  agoni5arc»Slndc  cede*  £>e  ea 
re  que  tc  non  molcftat  ne  certaucris.  6rgo  require  in  animo  tuo  a  teipfo  4d  eft 
q$  facere  vis,£ltram  factumillud  a  te  pcrttnca;  an  potfoe  ad  almm.te  imifcere 
no'n  oebes^TToli  p:o  alio  pugnarc  nee  inter  oifcozdationes  oifcozdtam  augere 
0ed  facvt  oicitfcneca»(5emper  oiJTelfio  at>  alio  icipiatta  te  recociliano^ue 
dam  agrefliTuntiniimid  fed  alias  qufdamoccurritvolens  ipfam  oefeudere  et 
armauit  fe  verfus  infmicos  illius  JUi  autem  oi]cerunt*amicc  tibi  infuriam  no,i 
facimus.tolle  qood  tuum  eft  ?  vadc  qm  oe  noftro  vindictam  qiiertm';^iii  no 
acquiefcens  fermonibas  eo:um  ad  bcilum  contra  cos  ic  parauit.tlli  autem  in* 
dignati  cum  inunico  ipfum  inutiiaucrm  it. 

S^e  elepbante  qui  p  lie  aui  t  co:am  Icon:,      Ca  p  i  tol  uin  J  t  f  nt . 


Zcpbao  cam  (It  inter  alias  feras  nomf  na 
ttflitn5'  et  faraofas  tamen  fe  genitulare  no 
poteft  pwpter  q6  genaa  no  babet^ua^ 
dam  autem  vice  leo  icns  per  ftlaam  cu  fe 
re  tranficbant  omnes  ei  genua  fiectebant 
vt  rcgiferaram^lepbaa  non  gena  fleFit 
qaia  non  pot»it,3nde  cuedam  fere  in  in 
dicio  ad  leone  conuenerunti  elepbante 
infamaucrunnXeo  autc  ad  elepbante  ac 
cclfit  oicc3,€fcuarc  es  tn  ita  ourns  t  acer 
bns  cp  genua  ante  me  no  flectia  vt  cetere 
Cui  elepbaa*  S>omfe  polfc  mco  te  oiligo 
i  bono:o  fed  ftecte*  e  me  non  poflantP'O 
pter  quod  genua  non  babco*  Bt  leo  (I  tu 


109 


219 


109  Destructorium  vitiorum  ex  similitudinum  creaturarum  exemplorum  appropriationem 
per  modum  dyalogi.  Lyon:  Claude  Nourry,  11  June  1509 

4°  (239  x  167mm.),  68  leaves,  title  printed  in  red  and  black,  heading  on  a3  recto  printed 
in  red,  5-,  6-  and  14-line  woodcut  initials,  numerous  woodcuts  in  the  text,  modern 
brown  morocco,  two-line  gilt  border  on  sides,  gilt  edges,  several  early  manuscript  notes 
on  title  and  in  margins  (washed  and  deleted),  some  light  browning  and  soiling 

VERY  SCARCE:  von  Giiltlingen  records  only  two  copies  of  this  edition,  one  in  the  British 
Library,  the  other  in  the  Bibliotheque  municipale  in  Lyon  (the  latter  incomplete). 

This  anonymous  work,  first  printed  in  1480  by  Gerard  Leeu  at  Gouda  under  the  title 
Dialogus  creaturarum  moralisatus  (Goff  N151),  ranks  alongside  Aesop  and  the  Fables  of 
Bidpai  by  Johannes  de  Capua  as  one  of  the  three  great  illustrated  fable  books  to  be 
printed  in  the  fifteenth  century.  It  is  ascribed  both  to  the  physician  Mayno  de  Mayneriis 
(d.  1368),  on  the  basis  of  a  manuscript  in  Cremona,  and  to  Nicolaus  Pergamenus,  on  the 
basis  of  Paris  BN  MS.  lat  8512. 

A  dozen  or  so  editions  were  printed  by  the  end  of  the  fifteenth  century,  including 
translations  into  Dutch  and  French;  and  all  but  two  of  them  used  Leeu's  original 
woodblocks.  The  woodcuts  of  the  present  edition,  and  another  printed  by  Nourry  on  4 
September  1511,  are  copies  of  Leeu's  blocks. 

Provenance: J.B.  Asseste(P),  with  French  purchase  inscrition  dated  1587  on  title; 
unidentified  Jesuit  house,  with  inscription  dated  1635  on  title;  Robert  George  Windsor- 
Clive,  Earl  of  Plymouth,  with  bookplate 

References:  von  Gultlingen  i  p.  76  no.  32;  Baudrier  xii  108 

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DAVID  Sauli's  armisreiecftis,acfolius  Dei 
potencia  confiftisjapidefunda  iacfto  Go> 
liath  mterficic.Philifthceos  in  fogam  uertit. 


I  .       R  E  G  V  M         X  V  I  K 


110  actual  size 


221 


110  [Holbein,  Hans]  Historiarum  veteris  instrumenti  icones  ad  vivum  expressae.  Lyons: 
Melchior  and  Caspar  Trechsel  [forj.  and  F.  Frellon],  1538 

FIRST  EDITION,  second  issue,  4°  (187  x  130mm.),  printer's  woodcut  device  on  title,  92 
woodcut  illustrations,  colophon  within  woodcut  frame  on  recto  of  final  leaf,  green 
morocco  gilt  by  Chambollo-Duru,  wide  border  of  leafy  tendrils,  gilt  edges,  morocco 
slipcase,  Kl  neatly  remargined,  early  manuscript  notes  on  M2  and  foliation  partly  washed  out 

FIRST  EDITION  OF  HOLBEIN'S  FAMOUS  SERIES  OF  ILLUSTRATIONS  OF  OLD  TESTAMENT 
SCENES.  Two  further  woodcuts  were  added  in  the  second  edition  of  1539,  and  all  editions 
thereafter  contain  94  illustrations.  Eighty-six  of  the  woodcuts  were  used  in  the  same  year 
for  the  Trechsel  brothers'  folio  Latin  Bible. 

This  is  the  second  issue  with  signatures  of  gatherings  I-M  in  larger  type  and  with 
woodcuts  transposed  in  gathering  I. 

Provenance:  Sir  David  Salomons,  with  bookplate  (sale  Christie's,  25  June  1986,  lot  172) 
References:  Harvard  Catalogue  277;  Baudrier  v  175;  von  Giiltlingen,  vi,  139 

£7,000-10,000 
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111 


223 


111  Homer.  O&uaaEia.  Bca;paxo^ujO[a,axia.  Yfrvoi  A.p.  Ulyssea.  Batrachomyomachia. 

Hymni  xxxii.  [Venice:  Aldus  Manutius,  1504] 

8°  (164  x  100mm.),  Greek  letter,  initial  spaces  with  printed  guides,  Aldine  anchor  and 
dolphin  device  on  title-page,  CONTEMPORARY  PADUAN  (?)  RED  MOROCCO  GILT,  line 
borders  in  gilt  in  borders,  small  gilt  fleuron  at  corners,  gilt  figure  of  Fortune  and  her  sail 
in  centre  of  sides,  3  double  and  4  single  sewing  bands  on  spine,  edges  gilt  and  gauffered, 
black  morocco  box  by  Sangorski  &  Sutcliffe,  15  recto  dust-soiled,  small  repairs  to  two 
corners 

THE  FIRST  ALDINE  EDITION  OF  THE  ODYSSEY,  the  second  volume  of  the  Aldine  complete 
edition  of  Homer  which  also  includes  the  Vitae  Homeri.  This  is  in  fact  the  first  octavo 
edition,  printed  in  the  smallest  size  of  Aldus'  Greek  font.  Although  textually  of  no 
importance,  it  occupies  an  important  place  in  the  reading  of  Homer  forming  part  of  the 
group  of  Octovo  texts, published  from  1501  onwards,  both  in  the  classical  languages  and 
in  Italian  -  Virgil,  Sophocles,  Euripides,  Petrarch,  Dante  etc.  -  which  revolutionised  books 
and  reading.  One  of  Aldus's  early  customers  wrote  in  1501:  'For  since  my  various 
activities  leave  me  no  spare  time...  your  books  -  which  are  so  handy  that  I  can  use  them 
walking,  and  even,  so  to  speak,  while  playing  the  courtier...  have  become  a  special  delight 
to  me'  (cited  by  Grafton,  'The  humanist  as  reader'  in  Cavallo  and  Chartier,  A  history  of 
reading  in  the  West,  1999,  p.  186).  There  is  no  colophon,  the  preface  is  dated  3  November 
1504. 

Grolier  owned  a  copy  of  this  edition  (Austin  232.1)  now  in  the  Grolier  Club.  The 
impresa  of  Fortune  stamped  on  the  covers  is  discussed  by  Mazzucco  in  Marcon  &  Zorzi  p. 
176-177,  and  the  tools  illustrated,  and  is  reproduced  in  Hobson  (1989)  p.  262  in  his 
discussion  of  Paduan  bindings  from  a  shop  active  from  about  1530  onwards,  many  of 
them  on  Aldine  editions. 

Provenance:  German-speaking  Capuchin  convent,  with  stamp  partly  erased;  Tammaro  de 
Marinis;  The  Garden  Ltd.,  with  booklabel  (sale  Sotheby's  New  York,  9  November  1989, 
lot  33) 

References:  Renouard  p.  46;  Ahmanson-Murphy  68/2;  Marcon  &  Zorzi,  Aldo  Manuzio, 
1994no.99 

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112  Homer.  O[ir|pou  IXiao...  O&uoaeia.  Homeri  Ilias...  Ulyssea.  Venice:  in  aedibus  Aldi,  et 
Andreae  Asulani  soceri,  April  1524 

2  volumes,  8°  (160  x  99mm.),  Greek  letter,  Aldine  anchor  and  dolphin  device  on  title- 
pages  and  at  the  end  of  each  volume,  initial  spaces  with  printed  guides,  early  nineteenth- 
century  French  blue  straight-grained  morocco  gilt,  narrow  leafy  border,  inner  beaded  line 
border,  small  corner-pieces  with  dotted  grounds,  spine  gilt  in  compartments,  three  with 
dotted  grounds,  gilt  edges,  inner  gilt  border  with  Greek  key  pattern  border,  occasional  very 
slight  worming  in  lower  margins,  edges  of  bindings  very  slightly  rubbed 

Third  Aldine  edition.  A  VERY  PRETTY,  CLEAN  COPY.  The  Aldines  in  the  Clive  collection 
passed  to  the  2nd  Earl  of  Powis,  often  described  before  his  father's  death  as  Lord  Clive. 
They  were  sold  as  one  lot  and  formed  the  base  for  Quaritch's  Catalogue  of  a  most 
important  collection  of  publications  of  the  Aldine  press  (1929).  The  binding  is  reminiscent  of 
work  by  Bozerian. 

Provenance:  College  of  St  Charles,  Salzburg,  with  inscription  on  first  title;  Edward 
Herbert  (1785-1848),  2nd  Earl  of  Powis,  Viscount  Clive,  with  bookplate;  Earl  of  Powis 
(sale  in  our  rooms,  March  23,  lot  479) 

References:  Renouard  p. 98;  Ahmanson-Murphy  197/1  &  2;  Hoffmann  ii  460 

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112 


226 


227 


113  Homer.  Odyssea  ad  verbum  translata,  Andrea  Divo  lustinopolitano  interprete.  Eiusdem 
Batrachomyomachia...  Aldo  Manutio  interprete.  Eiusdem  Hymni  deorum  XXXII.  Georgio 
Dartona  Cretense  interprete.  Paris:  Chretien  Wechel,  1538 

8°  (169  x  108mm.),  italic  letter,  woodcut  white-on-black  initials  on  crible  grounds, 
woodcut  printer's  device  on  title-page  and  at  the  end,  SIXTEENTH-CENTURY  FRENCH  CALF 
GILT  FOR  THOMAS  MAHIEU,  in  the  atelier  of  Claude  de  Picques,  outer  border  of  two  fillets 
painted  red  and  white,  sides  decoratd  with  interlacing  fillets  painted  in  red,  white,  green 
and  yellow,  leafy  azured  tools,  including  the  stirrup  stamp,  within  the  central  cartouche 
and  between  the  fillets,  upper  cover  lettered  in  gilt  in  centre  HOMERI/ODYSSEA  and  at  the 
foot  TO  MAIOLI  ET  AMICORUM,  lower  cover  lettered  in  the  centre 
INGRATIS/SERVIRE/NEPHAS,  flat  spine  decorated  with  gilt  cross-hatching,  gilt  edges, 
modern  morocco  box,  some  light  damp-staining,  lacking  two  pairs  of  ties,  spine  slightly 
damaged  at  head  and  foot  and  neatly  repaired,  colours  slightly  rubbed  in  a  few  places  with 
some  repainting 

BOUND  FOR  THOMAS  MAHIEU,  principal  secretary  to  Catherine  de  Medicis  from  1549  to 
1560,  and  later  a  conseiller  du  /fo/'at  the  court  of  Henri  II.  Some  109  books  from  his 
library  are  recorded  almost  all  in  Latin  or  Italian.  The  present  book  is  no.  40  in  G.D. 
Hobson's  list  (Maioli,  Canevari  and  others,  1926,  in  his  group  VI).  It  was  exhibited  at  the 
Burlington  Fine  Arts  Club  Exhibition,  1891,  was  reproduced  in  the  catalogue  (pi.  XLI);  it 
was  also  included  in  the  First  Edition  Club  Exhibition  of  Bookbindings  in  1926. 

The  present  edition  of  Homer's  works  includes  a  second  volume  containing  the  Iliad 
which  is  not  present  here.  Of  the  two  copies  in  the  British  Library,  the  Grenville  copy  also 
lacks,  as  does  that  in  the  Bibl.  Mazarine,  the  Iliad.  Legrand  (374)  describes  it  as  a  'rare  et 
jolie  edition'.  He  also  describes  another  similar  edition  in  two  volumes  of  these  texts 
published  in  the  same  year  at  Lyons  with  the  device  of  Vincentius  de  Portionariis  (no. 
373;  Baudrier  v  467;  von  Gultlingen  ii  (1993)  p.  186  nos.  248-249). 

As  can  be  seen  the  provenance  of  this  copy  is  extremely  distinguished,  having  belonged  to 
Mahieu,  to  Richard  Heber  who  bought  it  at  Leigh  &  Sotheby's  in  February  1812- 
possibly  at  the  sale  of  duplicates  from  Colonel  Stanley's  library  (19  February)  or  possibly 
at  the  sale  of  Matthew  Raines's  library  (27  February),  then  to  the  great  Dante  scholar 
Vernon  (cf.  lot  64),  and  then  to  the  Holfords  of  Dorchester  House. 

Provenance:  Thomas  Mahieu;  Richard  Heber,  with  autograph  note  of  purchase  'Sale  by  L. 
&  S.  Feb.  1812.  £6.0.0'  (sale,  ix,  1 1  April  1836,  lot  1465,  for  £3.0.0  to  Thorpe);  George 
John  Warren,  5th  Baron  Vernon  (1803-1866);  Robert  Stayner  Holford;  Sir  George 
Holford  (sale  in  our  rooms,  ii,  5  December  1927,  lot  370) 

References:  Hoffmann  ii  478;  Adams  H773;  Foot,  Thomas  Mahieu  and  his  binder'  in  The 
Henry  Davis  Gift,  vol.  1  (1978) 

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1 14  Homer.  Ilias...  Latino  carmine  reddita,  Helio  Eobano  Hesso  interprete.  Paris:  Guillaume 
Morel  for  Martin  Le  Jeune,  1  July  1550 

16°  (1 16  x  80mm.),  italic  letter,  ruled  in  red  throughout,  CONTEMPORARY  PARISIAN 
BROWN  CALF  GILT,  border  of  interlaced  fillets,  two  large  azured  bud-tools,  leaves  and 
roundels,  dotted  grounds  in  some  compartments,  partly  painted  black,  spine  gilt  in 
compartments,  gilt  edges,  new  spine  label,  cloth  box,  spine  repaired  at  head  and  foot, 
corners  repaired 

POSSIBLY  BOUND  FOR  THOMAS  WOTTON.  This  binding  is  the  work  of  the  binder  of  Wotton 
Group  I  (see  H.M.  Nixon,  Twelve  Books  in  Fine  Bindings...  Hely-Hutchinson,  1953,  p.  10), 
and  as  it  has  an  English  provenance  from  at  least  the  eighteenth  century,  it  is  quite 
possible  that  it  was  bound  for  Wotton. 

Most  of  the  bindings  executed  for  Wotton  are  either  identifiable  because  they  have  his 
name  or  arms  on  them,  or  because  they  have  a  provenance  which  stems  ultimately  from 
Boughton  Malherbe,  the  Wotton  seat  in  Kent,  such  as  the  books  sold  in  the  April  1919 
sale,  which  came  from  Lord  Carnarvon  (e.g.  the  Eton  Agrippa,  1533,  at  Eton,  which 
resembles  this  binding,  see  reproduction  in  Nixon  (1953)  pi.  10,  and  in  Quarrie, 
Treasures  of  Eton  College  Library,  New  York:  PML,  1990,  no.l  12).  This  volume  has  no 
such  obvious  connection. 

These  delightful  I6mo  volumes,  which  were  very  popular  from  the  mid-sixteenth  century 
onwards,  and  led,  one  may  presume,  to  the  bijou  Elzevier  formats  of  the  seventeenth 
century,  were  printed  in  Paris  in  the  1 530s  and  1 540s  by  Simon  de  Colines,  by  Le  Jeune 
in  Lyons  by  Gryphius,  Payen,  Frellon  and  others,  by  Plantin  in  Antwerp,  and  in  Geneva. 
Some  were  also  printed  in  England.  They  were  often,  but  not  exclusively  used  for  Latin 
writers  or  translations,  e.g.  the  Lactantius  owned  by  Jacques  Malenfant  in  the  Henry 
Davis  Gift,  the  series  of  volumes  owned  by  Pietro  Duodo,  printed  in  the  1590s  by 
Gryphius  in  Lyons  and  Stoer  in  Geneva,  the  various  editions  of  Ovid,  Virgil,  Horace,  the 
Psalms,  Juvenal,  Aesop  and  others  printed  by  Plantin  from  the  1550s  onwards,  and  often 
found  in  handsome  bindings.  Another  feature  of  these  small  books  is  that  they  are 
generally  (as  here)  ruled  in  red. 

Scrope  Berdmore,  who  owned  the  book  in  1790,  was  warden  of  Merton  College,  Oxford. 

Provenance:  Scrope  Berdmore,  1790,  with  bookplate;  Henry  C.  Compton  of  Lyndhurst, 
with  bookplate;  H.B.  Wheatley  (sale  in  our  rooms,  8  April  1918,  lot  16);  Lt.-Col.  WE. 
Moss  (sale  in  our  rooms,  2  March  1937,  lot  821);  J.R.  Abbey,  with  morocco  book-labels 
(sale  in  our  rooms,  iii,  20  June  1967,  lot  1916) 

References:  Adams  H785;  G.D.  Hobson,  English  Bindings  of  J.R.  Abbey,  no.  1 1 

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115  [Joris,  David]  T'Wonder-Boeck:  waer  in  dat  van  der  Werldt  aen  versloten  gheopenbaert 

is.  Opt  nieuw  ghecorrigeert  unde  vermeerdert  by  den  Autheur  selve:  Intjaer  1551  [Vianen: 
Dierck  Mullen,  1584] 

Second  edition,  4  parts  in  one  volume,  2°  (312  x  208mm.),  3  full-page  engravings,  2 
engravings  in  the  text,  6  woodcut  illustrations  in  text,  seventeenth-century  Dutch  vellum, 
bibliographical  notes  in  Dutch  on  front  flyleaf,  upper  margin  of  title-page  cut  away 

Second  edition  of  T  Wonder  boeck  by  David  Joris  (1501-1556),  one  of  the  most  important 
Anabaptist  leaders  in  the  Low  Countries  and  the  founder  of  the  Davidists,  or  Jorists,  a 
sect  whose  members  considered  Joris  a  prophet.  TWonderboeck,  Joris's  most  important 
work,  was  first  published  in  1 542,  with  woodcut  illustrations  said  to  have  been  designed 
by  Joris  himself  (his  first  known  occupation  was  as  a  glass-painter  and  he  is  known  to 
have  worked  as  such  in  Holland,  France  and  England). 

The  present  edition  was  published  at  the  instigation  of  Herman  Herberts,  prescher  in 
Dordrecht  and  Gouda,  for  whom  the  printer  Dierck  Mullem  had  already  printed  three 
works.  Mullem  later  admitted  under  interrogation  that  he  had  printed  on  commission  in 
1583/4  an  edition  of  100  copies  which  had  been  sent  to  Emden.  The  three  large 
woodcuts  of  the  first  edition  were  replaced  with  two  engraved  and  one  etched  plate,  two 
of  which  were  by  Hieronymus  Wierix.  There  are  also  two  engravings  in  the  text,  that  of 
the  Lamb  on  f2  recto  and  that  of  a  river  scene  on  4C6  recto.  The  woodcut  diagram  on 
4C6  verso  contains  some  captions  printed  in  civilite  type.  A  third  edition  was  printed  by 
the  same  printer  at  Rotterdam  c.  1595,  in  which  the  two  text  engravings  were  replaced 
with  woodcuts. 

Provenance:  W.  van  Rossen,  with  bookplate 

References:  A.  van  der  Linde,  David  Joris  Bibliografie,  s'Gravenhage,  1 867,  no.  57;  Paul 
Valkema  Blouw,  'Printers  to  the  'arch-heretic'  David  Joris,  Prolegomena  to  a  bibliography 
of  his  works',  Quaerendo,  21/3  (1991),  pp.  163-209;  Roland  H.  Bainton,  'David  Joris, 
Wiedertaufer  und  Kampfer  fiirToleranz',  in  Archiv  fur  Reformationsgeschichte, 
Erganzungsband  VI,  Leipzig,  1937;  P.V.  Blouw,  Typographia  Batava  1541-1600 
(Nieuwkoop:  De  Graaf,  1998)  no.  5643 

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gwnem,  quod  efiftcundwn  opw  &  in  Metliodo  iam  dtclda 
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116  Lacinius,  Janus,  editor.  Pretiosa  margarita  novella  de  thesauro,  ac  pretiosissimo 

philosophorum  lapide...  collectanea  ex  Arnaldo,  Rhaymundo,  Rhasi,  Alberto  &  Michaele 
Scoto.  Venice:  apud  Aldi  filios,  1546 

FIRST  EDITION,  8°  (142  x  97mm.),  Aldine  anchor  and  dolphin  device  on  title  and  on 
verso  of  final  leaf,  22  woodcut  illustrations,  initial  spaces  with  printed  guides,  modern 
calf,  some  early  manuscript  annotations  to  illustrations,  a  few  slight  stains 

FIRST  EDITION  OF  AN  IMPORTANT  ALCHEMICAL  WORK,  the  Pretiosa  margarita  novella, 
purported  to  be  written  by  one  Petrus  Bonus  in  c.  1330.  To  this  abbreviated  version  of 
the  text,  Janus  Lacinius,  of  Calabria,  added  writings  by  Raymond  Lull,  Arnold  of 
Villanova,  Albert  the  Great  and  Michael  Scotus. 

Janus  Lacinius  [Therapus]  (Giano  Lacinio)  is  named  as  editor  of  this  work.  He  was,  as  he 
and  the  various  liminary  verses  proudly  proclaim  (those  by  Hippolytus  Fantotius  of 
Perugia,  written  as  if  the  Ars  divina'  is  speaking  give  both  his  forenames),  a  native  of 
Calabria  from  Psychronea,  and  a  minorite  friar,  i.e.  a  Franciscan.  Sbaralea  (Suppl. ..ad 
scriptorum  trium  ordinum  s.  Francisci,  II,  Rome,  1921  p.  22)  treats  the  name  as  a 
pseudonym  and  identifies  him  with  John  of  Croton,  from  a  promontary  in  Calabria 
called  Lacinium.  The  Pretiosa  Margarita  novella  circulated  in  manuscript  and  is  attributed 
generally  to  one  Petrus  Bonus  (Pietro  Bono,  see  article  by  C.  Vasoli  in  DBI12  pp.  287- 
289),  who  in  turn  refers  to  many  earlier  alchemical  sources.  It  is  interesting  not  only  for 
its  alchemical  content,  and  the  practicalities  of  alchemy,  but  also  for  the  light  it  throws 
generally  on  fourteenth-century  technology.  It  is  (as  Vasoli  remarks)  distinguished  'for  the 
noteworthy  simplicity  of  the  procedures  proposed  and  by  nature  of  being  a  practical 
manual,  written  for  a  public  of 'scientists'  and  scholastic  academics'. 

This  edition,  the  only  such  work  to  be  published  by  the  Aldine  press,  was  said  by 
Georgius  Merula  to  have  many  errors  (Thorndike,  op.cit.  v,  546),  but  it  was  nevertheless 
much  read,  and  also  reprinted.  Another  edition  Preciosa. . .  artis  chymicae  collectanea 
appeared  in  Nuremberg  in  1554  from  the  press  of  G.  Hayn  (also  Basel,  1572, 
Mompegard  1602  and  Strassburg  1608).  That  the  work  remained  very  much  alive  is 
shown  by  the  publication  in  1714  of  a  German  translation  published  in  Leipzig,  and  in 
the  1890s  the  Englishman  Arthur  E.  Waite  abbreviated  and  translated  this  Aldine  edition 
(London:  J.  Elliott  &  Co.,  1894,  reprinted  London,  1963).  There  is  also  a  modern  Italian 
translation,  Preziosa  margarita  novella  /  [di]  Pietro  Bono  da  Ferrara ;  edizione  del 
volgarizzamento,  introduzione  e  note  a  cura  di  Chiara  Crisciani,  Firenze:  La  nuova  Italia, 
1976. 

The  present  copy  contains  the  errors  in  the  headlines  of  gathering  L  as  described  in  the 
Mellon  catalogue.  The  copies  in  the  Beinecke  Library  and  in  the  Garden  Ltd.  collection 
(sale  Sotheby's  New  York,  9  November  1989,  lots  55  and  56)  all  have  these  errors 
corrected. 

Another  issue  of  this  edition  appeared  with  the  first  8  leaves  reprinted,  with  the  device  of 
Giordano  Ziletti  and  the  date  1557  on  the  title-page. 

'Ce  volume  est  rare  et  ne  se  trouve  guere  que  mal  conserve  et  delabre:  il  aura  du  eprouver 
plus  d'un  accident  aupres  des  fourneaux  des  adeptes'  (Renouard). 

Provenance:  John  Carr  (1764-1817)  of  Dunston  Hill,  co.  Durham,  and  Hedgeley, 
Northumberland,  who  was  in  Florence  from  May  1792  until  19  November  1793  (see 
Ingamells  A  dictionary  of  British  and  Irish  travellers  in  Italy  1701-1800(1997)  pp.  185- 
186) 

References:  Renouard  p.  135;  Ahmanson-Murphy  312;  Caillet  5910;  Duveen  332; 
Ferguson  ii  2;  Mellon  Collection  17;  Thorndike,  iii,  chapter  ix  passim 

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PENSE'ES 

DE 

M.PASCAL 

SUR  LA  RELIGION 

ET  SUR  QUELQUES 

AUTRES    SUJETS, 

ont  cfte  trouvccs  aprcs  fa  wort 
farmy  fes 


A    PARIS, 

Chez    GUILLAUME    DESPREZ, 
rue  Saint  Jacques ,  a  Saint  profper. 

M.    DC.    LXX. 

Privilege  &  Approbation. 


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117  Pascal,  Blaise.  Pensees  de  M.  Pascal  sur  la  religion  et  sur  quelques  autres  sujets,  qui  ont 
este  trouvees  apres  sa  mort  parmy  ses  papiers.  Paris:  Guillaume  Desprez,  1670 

8vo  (154  x  86mm.),  234  leaves,  (41  +  183  +  10),  [82],  365,  [21]  pp.,  (a12  e12  i8  o8  u1, 
A-P12  Q4  R8  S2(-S2=ul?),  Contents:  alr  title  (verso  blank);  a2r-i8v  preface  [de  Port- 
Royal,  by  Etienne  Perier];  olr  -o6r  approbations;  06V  -07V  contents;  08r  extrait  du 
privilege;  08V  errata;  ulr"v  avertissement  on  the  subject  of  editing;  Alr  -Q3r  text  (Q3V 
blank);  Q4-S1V  table  des  matieres,  RULED  IN  RED  THROUGHOUT,  monogrammatic 
printer's  device  on  title,  contemporary  French  red  morocco,  gilt  triple  fillets  on  covers 
enclosing  a  central  panel  of  triple  fillets  with  flower  spray  fleurons  at  corners,  spine  gilt  in 
5  compartments,  one  compartment  lettered  in  gilt,  gilt  turn-ins,  all  edges  gilt,  in  red 
morocco  slip-case  by  Mme  Alix,  occasional  very  light  browning 

FIRST  EDITION.  THIS  IS  PROBABLY  THE  FINEST  COPY  KNOWN,  RULED  IN  RED  AND  IN  A  FINE 
CONTEMPORARY  MOROCCO  BINDING,  COMPLETELY  UNRESTORED. 

Pascal's  Pensees,  published  posthumously  in  1670,  is  the  greatest  work  of  one  of  the 
outstanding  French  thinkers  of  the  seventeenth  century.  Despite  being  composed  largely 
of  notes  and  fragments  jotted  down  'a  mesure  qu'elles  lui  venoient  dans  1'esprit'  in 
preparation  for  a  treatise  which  he  did  not  live  to  complete,  it  is  a  major  exercise  in 
Christian  apologetics.  The  avertissement  underlines  the  disjunct  nature  of  the  work  by 
drawing  attention  to  the  typographical  distinction  of  certain  Pensees.  The  published  work 
was  not  something  carefully  overseen  by  its  author,  but  rather  a  work  in  which  the  hand 
of  the  editors  at  Port-Royal  was  very  powerful.  In  fact  the  Pensees  were  already  circulating 
in  manuscript  by  the  time  of  publication,  as  were  other  works  by  Pascal,  which  was  a 
source  of  concern  to  his  nephew's  family.  They  therefore  acquired  a  privilege  for  the 
Fragments  etpenseesxi  the  end  of  1666  and  registered  it  with  the  booksellers  on  7  January 
1667.  The  work  of  editing  continued  from  1667  until  1669. 

The  original  autograph  recueil(now  BnF.  ms  f.fr.  9202)  is  a  collage  of  disparate  fragments 
pasted  into  a  guard  book.  Pascal  originally  made  his  notes  on  large  sheets  of  paper  (23.5  x 
35cm.,  sometimes  divided  in  half).  These  he  divided  up  taking  care  to  put  a  small  cross  at 
the  top  of  the  page.  When  in  mid- 1658  he  decided  to  classify  them,  he  cut  up  these  large 
sheets  and  constructed  bundles  held  together  by  a  thread  or  a  metal  staple.  The  guard 
book  into  which  they  were  pasted  was  made  later,  and  was  presented  in  1711  to  the 
library  at  Saint  Germain-des-Pres  in  1711  by  Etienne  Perier,  where  it  remained  until  the 
Revolution.  Two  other  copies  exist:  BnF  f.fr.  9203  (Cl),  and  f.fr.  12449  (C2),  both  of 
these  containing  some  new  material.  It  is  on  these  manuscript  sources  that  modern  texts 
of  the  Pensees  s.re  based. 


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The  'acheve  d'imprimer'  of  the  1670  edition  is  dated  2  January  1670,  but  the  bulk  of  the 
text  was  printed  in  1669.  In  fact,  two  copies  of  a  so-called  edition  preoriginale  with  the 
date  1669  are  known  to  exist,  one  at  the  BnF  (Res.  D. 2 1374,  acquired  in  the  1850s,  and 
used  by  Sainte-Beuve)  and  the  other  atTroyes.  The  copy  in  Paris  consists  of  30 
preliminary  leaves,  365pp.  for  the  text  and  1  leaf  at  the  end  of  Table  des  matieres  (Q4), 
which  ends  at  the  letter  C:  it  has  no  approbations,  privilege,  table  of  chapters,  errata  or 
avertissement.  These  absences  would  definitely  serve  to  accord  it  a  quasi  interim  status 
(does  it  have  a  title-page  solely  as  an  identifying  mark?).  The  1669  'edition'  has  424 
fragments,  of  which  five  were  suppressed  before  the  appearance  of  the  1670  edition,  the 
edition  originale. 

The  supposition  is  that  the  1 669  copies  were  printed  'a  tirage  restreint'  (Le  Guern  speaks 
of  thirty  or  so  copies)  for  submission  to  the  censors  and  friends:  the  approbations  are 
dated  August-November  1669,  and  a  letter  from  Arnauld  to  Florin  Perier  (dated  20-xi- 
1669)  mentions  some  of  the  difficulties  connected  with  this  edition  preoriginale.  Certainly 


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the  edition  originate was  published  early  in  1670:  the  archbishop  of  Paris  Hardouin  de 
Perefixe  had  summoned  the  printer  Desprez,  who,  after  consultation  with  Arnauld  and 
others,  provided  one  on  24  December  1669,  although  he  declined  to  add  the  declaration 
by  the  cure  de  Saint-Etienne  (on  Pascal's  denial  of  Port- Royal  on  his  deathbed),  which  the 
archbishop  wanted  to  inserted  with  the  approbations.  Daniel  Huet  bought  his  copy  of  the 
first  edition  (now  in  the  BNF  Res.  D.  21375)  in  February  1670.  The  1670  edition 
contains  additionally  twelve  fragments  drawn  from  Pascal's  letter  to  the  Roannez  family, 
five  taken  from  the  letter  on  the  death  of  his  father,  and  fifteen  taken  from  the  Priere pour 
le  bon  usage  des  maladies  (=section  xxxii,  the  text  being  divided  into  32  sections.)  It  is  clear 
that  substantive  changes  were  made  to  the  text  very  late  in  1669. 

The  long  preface  by  Etienne  Perier,  Pascal's  nephew,  gives  some  account  of  Pascal  and  of 
his  virtue  and  piety,  and  of  the  work:  'de  quelle  maniere  ces  Pensees  ont  etc  ecrites  et 
recueillies:  ce  qui  en  a  fait  retarder  1'impression  [Pascal  died  19  August  1662];  quel  etait  le 
dessin  de  1'auteur  dans  cet  ouvrage  et  comment  il  a  passe  les  dernieres  annees  de  sa  vie.' 

Desprez,  who  was  the  'official'  printer  for  Port  Royal,  published  another  edition  in  1 670 
with  identical  title-page,  and  ornaments,  but  with  221  leaves  ([64],  [1]2-312,  307-330, 
3 13-334, [20]  pp.),  and  the  errata  corrected  (Le  Guern  C;  Maire  6).  He  also  published  the 
Seconde  edition  (348  pp.,  Le  Guern  D;  Maire  70),  and  the  textus  receptusof  1678.  There 
are  two  other  editions  with  his  name  but  these  are  clearly  Low  Countries  piracies  or 
clandestine  editions  (Le  Guern  A;  it  has  a  woodcut  fleuron  on  title-page,  a  frieze  bandeau 
on  [2]nd  Al,  rose  cul-de-lampe  on  p.  294  (end  XXX)  and  fruit  cul-de-lampe  on  p.  342 
(end  XXI)  as  well  as  a  number  of  other  differences),  and  another  (Le  Guern  B,  with  a 
fleuron  of  two  crossed  palms  with  interlacing  leaves  and  flowers.) 

In  this  copy  the  list  of  errata  the  final  item  has  been  crossed  out:  an  addition  to  p.  337  1. 
12  where  'car  leur  but  principal  n'estoit  pas  d'instruire,  mais  d'echaufer  'should  have 
'seulement'  added  after  'instruire'. 

Provenance:  Montcelor,  seventeenth-century  inscription  on  title;  sold  Paris,  Ader  Picard 
Tajan,  29  March  1984,  lot  78;  The  Garden  Ltd.  (sale  Sotheby's  New  York,  9-10 
November  1989,  lot  126) 

References :T.  Goyet,  'Le  Visage  de  1670',  in  Les  Pensees  de  Pascal  en  trois  cent  ans, 
Clermont-Ferrand:  Bussac,  1971;  HJ.  Martin  (1987)  'Guillaume  Desprez,  libraire  de 
Pascal  et  de  Port-Royal',  reprinted  in  his  Le  livrefrancais  sous  I'Ancien  Regime,  Paris: 
Promodis,  1987,  pp.65-78;  Antony  McKenna,  De  Pascal  a  Voltaire:  le  role  des  Pensees  de 
Pascal  dans  I'histoire  des  idees  entre  1670  et  1734,  Oxford:  Voltaire  Foundation  1990,  vol 
1.;  Pascal,  Oeuvres  completes  II  Edition  presente...  par  Michelle  Guern,  Paris:  Gallimard, 
2000;  Printing  and  the  Mind  of  Man  152 

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118  Petrarca,  Francesco.  II  Petrarcha  con  1'espositione  d'Allessandro  Vellutello.  Venice: 
Bernardino  de  Vidali,  February  1528 

2  parts  in  one  volume,  4°  (197  x  138mm.),  hand-coloured  double-page  woodcut  map  of 
the  Vaucluse  region,  two  full-page  illuminations  in  camaieu  d'or  on  title-page  and  sub 
title,  gold  on  brown  with  occasional  touches  of  green,  early  nineteenth-century  diced 
russia  by  Binda  of  Milan,  edges  marbled  and  gilt,  modern  cloth  box,  manuscript  poem  in 
a  sixteenth-century  hand  on  n3  verso  and  n4  recto,  two  wormholes  in  title  and  one  in  last  5 
leaves  repaired,  illuminated  border  on  title  slightly  shaved  at  head,  lower  cover  detached 

FROM  THE  LIBRARY  OF  PIETRO  BEMBO,  ILLUMINATED  BY  BENEDETTO  BORDONE.  This  is  one 
of  the  few  surviving  books  from  the  library  of  the  Renaissance  humanist  and  Cardinal 
Pietro  Bembo  (1470-1547),  who  edited  Petrarch's  Rime  for  Aldus  Manutius's  1501 
edition.  This  edition  of  Petrarch  was  very  highly  regarded  and  established  Bembo's 
reputation  as  one  of  the  finest  literary  scholars  (for  Bembo's  editing  of  Petrarch  and  other 
writers  see  B.  Richardson  Print  Culture  in  Renaissance  Italy,  Cambridge  1994  chap.  4). 
His  own  copy  of  this  edition,  printed  on  vellum  and  with  his  arms  illuminated  on  the 
first  leaf  of  text,  is  in  the  John  Rylands  University  Library  of  Manchester.  The  Pierpont 
Morgan  Library  has  a  1501  Petrarch  on  vellum  with  miniatures  attributed  to  Bordone 
(reproduced  in  Fletcher  In  Praise  of  Aldus  Manutius,  1995,  plates  1-2).  In  1544  Bembo 
was  able  to  purchase  Petrarch's  autograph  manuscript,  from  which  he  had  earlier  prepared 
the  Aldine  edition.  Alessandro  Vellutello's  commentaries  were  first  printed  by  the  da 
Sabbio  brothers  in  1525. 


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The  illumination  appears  to  be  the  work  of  Benedetto  Bordone  (c.  1450/60-c.  1530), 
who  worked  in  Venice  as  a  book  illuminator  from  the  early  1 500s  and  was  the  author  of 
the  Isolario  published  in  1 528.  The  architectural  border  on  the  title-page  is  designed  as  a 
marble  monument  with  a  classical  frieze  of  figures  at  the  foot.  Below  the  title  the  arms  of 
Bembo  are  within  a  cartouche.  The  other  border,  on  the  sub-title  to  the  Trionfi,  is  also 
architectural  and  is  composed  of  satyrs,  eagles,  putti  and  and  ram's  head.  At  the  foot  is  a 
classical  frieze  with  figures  and  Medusa  heads,  and  above  the  title  is  a  semi-circular 
compartment  depicts  the  Triumph  of  Love  watched  by  a  seated  poet. 

The  Bembo  provenance  of  this  copy  was  only  identified  by  Cecil  H.  Clough  in  1969- 

1970  (see  below). 

Provenance:  Pietro  Bembo,  with  his  illuminated  arms  added  to  title-page;  Miss  B.  Hall, 
Beech  House,  Cheltenham  (sale  in  our  rooms,  24  April  1939,  lot  44);  Major  J.R.  Abbey, 
with  faded  acquisition  note  on  end  flyleaf;  sale  in  our  rooms,  16  May  1977,  lot  35 

References:  Sander  5631;  C.H.  Clough,  Pietro  Bembo's  Library,  1971,  note  27;  and  his 
article,  'The  library  of  Bernardo  and  of  Pietro  Bembo',  The  Book  Collector,  33,  1984,  pp. 
305-331,  especially  p.  317;  Nella  Giannetto,  Bernardo  Bembo,  Florence  1985. 

£15,000-25,000 
€24,300-40,400 


240 


119  actual  size 


241 


119  Reisch,  Gregorius.  Margarita  philosophica,  cum  additionibus  novis.  Basel:  Michael  Furter, 
5  March  1517 

4°  (203  x  148mm.),  Gothic,  Greek  and  Hebrew  types,  title  printed  in  red  within 
woodcut  border,  17  full-page  woodcuts,  some  woodcut  illustrations  and  diagrams  in  text, 
numerous  small  woodcuts  in  margins  of  the  chapter  on  geometry,  printer's  woodcut 
device  at  the  end,  some  music  printed  on  4-line  staves,  WOODCUTS  ALL  COLOURED  BY 
HAND,  woodcut  initials,  border  on  title,  initials,  paragraph-marks  and  initial-strokes  all 
supplied  in  red,  modern  morocco,  sides  ruled  in  blind  to  a  diaper  pattern,  title  and  author 
lettered  in  an  early  hand  round  the  margins  of  title,  red  silk  indexing  tabs  on  most  of  the 
full-page  woodcuts,  lacking  the  world  map  found  in  some  copies  and  two  folding  diagrams 
relating  to  Music,  short  tear  at  head  ofa3 

Eighth  edition,  the  fourth  to  be  revised  by  the  author.  Gregor  Reisch,  prior  of  the 
Carthusian  monastery  of  Mons  S.  Joannis  Baptistae  near  Freiburg  im  Breisgau,  was 
confessor  to  Emperor  Maximilian  I.  His  popular  handbook  was  a  compendium  of  the 
trivium,  the  quadruvium  and  the  natural  and  moral  sciences  and  was  first  printed  in 
Freiburg  by  J.  Schott,  before  13  July  1503.  Following  this  first  edition,  a  pirated  edition 
was  produced  by  Griininger  at  Strassburg  in  1504;  Schott  then  printed  the  third  in  1504, 
and  the  fourth  in  partnership  with  Michael  Furter  at  Basel  on  17  February  1508. 
Griininger  then  produced  three  further  pirated  editions  in  1508,  1512  and  1515,  before 
the  present  edition  appeared. 

The  woodcuts  in  the  present  edition  are  those  used  in  the  first  edition,  with  the  exception 
of  that  of  Geometry,  which  did  not  appear  in  the  first  edition.  The  subjects  of  the  large 
cuts  are:  Philosophy,  Grammar,  Logic,  Rhetoric,  Arithmetic,  Music,  Geometry, 
Astronomy  (2),  Astrology,  the  Creation  (repeated),  Fortune,  Anatomy,  Childbirth,  a 
phrenological  head,  the  mouth  of  Hell  and  Purgatory. 

References:  VD16  R1040;  Wellcome  i  5418;  Smith  p.  83;  Fairfax  Murray  354 

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120  Tertullianus,  Quintus  Septimius  Florens.  Opera...  per  Beatum  Rhenanum  e  tenebris 
eruta.  Basel:  Hieronymus  Froben  and  Nicolaus  Episcopius,  March  1539 

2°  (304  x  204mm.),  printer's  woodcut  device  on  title  and  at  the  end,  white-on-black 
woodcut  initials,  full-page  woodcut  diagram  on  PI  verso,  contemporary  South  German 
binding  of  blind-stamped  calf  over  bevelled  wooden  boards,  borders  and  central  panel 
composed  of  a  roll  composed  of  four  bust  portraits  separated  by  ornament  (Hobson,  op. 
cit.  pi.  4b),  two  clasps  and  catches,  fore-edge  (56  mm.  wide)  decorated  with  a  painted 
figure  in  white  robes  writing  in  an  open  book,  lettered  Q.  SEPTIMUS  TERTULLIANUS,  top 
and  bottom  edges  marbled,  modern  morocco  slipcase,  gathering  Vv  mishound,  small 
wormhole  in  upper  margin  of  title  and  following  leaf,  one  clasp  renewed,  spine  slightly  chipped 
at  head  and  foot 

FROM  THE  PILLONE  LIBRARY,  WITH  A  FORE-EDGE  PAINTING  BY  CESARE  VECELLIO.  Belluno  is 

a  town  in  the  Veneto,  due  north  of  Venice,  on  the  edge  of  the  Grappa  Hills,  and  the 
Pillone  (properly  'Piloni')  family,  originally  from  the  Val  Cadore,  came  there  in  the  late 
fifteenth  century.  Antonio  Pillone  acquired  the  earliest  books  in  the  collection.  He  moved 
to  Belluno  in  1506,  where  he  was  a  prominent  citizen  much  involved  in  the  town's 
defence,  and  died  there  in  1533.  His  eldest  son  Odorico  (1503-1594),  who  in  the  1520s 


243 


had  been  at  Padua  University,  built  a  villa  at  Casteldardo  in  the  foothills  of  the 
mountains,  and  established  there  his  Studio,  collections  of  books,  pictures  and  other 
objects.  His  son  Giorgio,  author  of  a  history  of  Belluno  published  in  Venice  in  1607,  and 
who  may  have  had  some  connection  with  the  decoration  of  the  books,  died  in  1611. 

The  library  was  large  and  varied,  but  the  most  remarkable  feature  of  it  was  a  collection  of 
172  volumes,  of  which  most  had  beautifully  painted  fore-edges,  decorated  with  'portraits' 
of  the  authors  or  similar  images.  The  painter  who  executed  these  remarkable  paintings 
was  Cesare  Vecellio  (c.  1521-1601),  cousin  of  the  painter  Titian,  who  came  from  the 
region  and  was  working  in  the  late  1 570s  in  the  parish  church  at  Lentiai  and  in  numerous 
other  churches  around  Belluno.  The  work  of  painting  the  fore-edges  seems  to  have  been 
carried  out  over  a  number  of  years:  certainly  in  his  Habiti  antichi  e  modern*  (1 590) 
Vecellio  pays  tribute  to  the  folk  at  Casteldardo  and  their  hospitality  over  the  years. 
Confusion  with  his  more  famous  cousin  led  to  the  attribution  to  Titian  of  a  mural 
representing  the  rape  of  Paola  di  Lusa,  a  famous  episode  in  the  history  of  Feltre,  dating 
from  1590,  which  still  existed  in  1744  in  a  room  of  the  villa  (see  A.  Alpago  Novello,  Ville 
della provincia  di  Belluno,  Milan:  Rusconi,  1982,  pp.  411-413,  note  4). 

It  may  have  been  in  the  late  1570s,  therefore,  that  work  began  on  the  decoration  of 
certain  chosen  books,  all  already  in  the  library.  Those  acquired  by  Antonio  Pillone  before 
1500  were  in  half  bindings  of  wooden  boards  and  leather  spines,  decorated  only  with 
lines,  executed  either  in  the  Val  Cadore  or  in  Belluno.  Later  acquisitions  had  been  bound 
by  two  Belluno  workshops  which  Hobson  distinguished  as  Belluno  bindery  A  and  B; 
there  was  a  group  of  books  in  South  German  bindings  (see  below);  and  a  further  group 
(including  several  volumes  in  quarto  format)  acquired  later  were  bound  in  plain  vellum. 

The  present  binding  is  one  of  a  group  of  fifty-nine  volumes  in  German  bindings  of  blind- 
stamped  calf  or  pigskin.  Three  quarters  of  these  books  were  printed  in  Basel  or  Cologne 
and  the  latest  was  printed  in  1 550.  The  bulk  of  this  group  were  bound  in  one  of  two 
binderies,  one  at  Augsburg  (see  lot  121),  the  other  (of  which  the  present  book  is  an 
example)  possibly  at  Gorlitz  (see  Anthony  Hobson,  'The  Pillone  Library',  The  Book 
Collector,  Spring  1958,  pp.  34-35). 

It  is  thought  that  this  group  of  bindings  was  acquired  by  Odorico  Pillone  from  the  estate 
of  Bonaccorso  Grino  (d.  1553),  who  was  in  the  service  of  Emperor  Charles  V  and  was 
granted  the  castle  of  Burtembach,  near  Augsburg  (Odorico's  sister  had  married  a  member 
of  the  Bellunese  family  of  Grino). 

The  ecclesiastical  writer  Tertullian  (c.  160-240),  a  native  of  Carthage,  was  much  admired 
by  both  Cyprian  and  Augustine.  His  earliest  writings  were  the  apologetics  of  197.  After 
206  he  jointed  the  Montanist  sect  and  a  few  years  later  definitively  separated  from  the 
Church.  Virulant  writings  against  the  Church  followed  and  he  eventually  left  the 
Montanists  and  founded  his  own  sect,  the  Tertullianists,  who  were  eventually  reconciled 
to  the  Church  by  St  Augustine.  This  is  the  third  edition  of  his  works,  edited  by  Beatus 
Rhenanus,  printed  by  Froben,  preceded  by  editions  in  1521  and  1528. 

Provenance:  Odorico  Pillone;  Paolo  Maresio  Bazolle;  Sir  Thomas  Brooke,  with  his 
bookplate;  Pierre  Beres 

References:  Bibliotheque  Pillone  124  (illustrated);  VD16  T561 

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121  Theophylactus,  Archbishop  ofAchrida.  Ennarationes  in  quatuor  Evangelia  continens. 
loanne  Oecolampadio  interprete.  Basel:  heirs  of  Andreas  Cratander,  August  1541,  title 
within  historiated  woodcut  border,  printer's  woodcut  device  on  verso  of  final  leaf, 
woodcut  initials 

Theophylactus.  In  omnes  D.  Pauli  Epistolas  enarrationes...  Christophoro  Porsena 
Rhomano  interprete.  Cologne:  Peter  Quentell,  January  1531,  index  leaf  at  the  end, 
woodcut  initials 

2  works  in  one  volume,  2°  (31 1  x  209mm.),  contemporary  South  German  binding  of 
blind-stamped  pigksin  over  bevelled  wooden  boards,  outer  border  of  a  roll  of  David  and 
his  harp,  St  Paul  and  the  Resurrection  (Hobson,  op.  at.,  plate  4a),  fore-edge  (47  mm. 
wide)  painted  with  the  figure  of  an  archbishop  seated  at  a  table  covered  with  a  red  drap 
and  writing  in  a  open  book,  upper  and  lower  edges  marbled,  two  clasps  and  catches, 
modern  morocco  slipcase,  a  censored  copy  of  the  first  work  with  the  name  ofOecolampadius 
erased  on  title  and  at  the  beginning  of  the  text  and  several  words  erased  from  Oecolampadius's 
address  to  the  reader  with  paper  damage  and  slight  text  loss,  small  stain  on  title  and  following 
leaves  of  first  work 

FROM  THE  PILLONE  LIBRARY,  WITH  A  FORE-EDGE  PAINTING  BY  CESARE  VECELLIO.  One  of 
twenty-six  volumes  in  the  library  probably  bound  at  Augsburg  (see  lot  120). 

Theophylact,  born  in  Constantinople  and  Archbishop  ofAchrida  and  metropolitan  of 
Bulgaria  from  1078  to  1 107,  was  considered  the  most  learned  exegete  of  his  time.  His 
fame  rests  largely  on  his  biblical  commentaries.  Oecolampadius's  Latin  translation  of  his 
commentary  on  the  Gospels  was  first  printed  by  Cratander  in  1522;  and  Porsena's 
translation  of  the  commentary  on  St  Paul  was  first  printed  by  Quentell  in  1527.  Melchior 
von  Neuss  printed  an  octavo  edition  also  at  Cologne,  and  in  the  same  year  as  the  present 
edition. 

Provenance:  Odorico  Pillone;  Paolo  Maresio  Bazolle;  Sir  Thomas  Brooke,  with  his 
bookplate;  Pierre  Beres 

References:  Bibliotheque  Pillone  126;  VD16  B4614  &  5001;  Hoffman  iii  740 

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122  Vergilius  Maro,  Publius.  Opera  (edited  by  Sebastian  Brant).  Strassburg:  Johann  Griininger, 
1502 

2°  (275  x  200mm.),  449  leaves  (A6  B-G8  H10'1  I-S8  T-V10  x-z8  Aa-Hh8  ii6  KK-W8 
xx"  yy-zz°  a-f°  aa-cc°  ),  full-page  woodcut  on  title,  some  210  other  woodcuts  in  text, 
some  full-page,  one  double-page,  woodcut  initials,  title  printed  in  red,  printer's  woodcut 
device  at  the  end,  nineteenth-century  blind-tooled  green  morocco  by  W.  Pratt,  gilt  edges, 
a  few  early  manuscript  notes  in  margins,  some  headlines  shaved,  tears  in  Rl,  MM3,  a7  and 
f2  repaired  with  minimal  loss  in  all  cases,  repairs  in  margins  of  a  few  other  leaves,  printing 
flaw  on  CCS  recto,  occasional  light  spotting 

If  for  the  Middle  Ages  Aristotle  was  ille philosophus,  Virgil  was  ille poeta  -  Ad  Maronis 
mausoleum/  ductus  flevit  super  eum'.  It  was  Virgil,  'savio  gentil,  che  tutto  sepe'  (Inferno 
7.3.)  who  guided  the  greatest  poet  of  medieval  Catholicism,  Dante,  through  to  the  gates 
of  heaven,  where  he  has  to  abandon  him. 

This  first  illustrated  edition  is  'one  of  the  most  wonderful  illustrated  books  ever 
produced'  (Redgrave,  'The  illustrated  books  of  Sebastian  Brant',  in  Bibliographica  II 
(1896)  p.  56),  and  a  landmark  in  the  presentation  of  Virgil.  The  charming  rural 
evocations  for  the  ten  Eclogue  are  founded  in  contemporary  life,  as  are  the  illustrations  for 
the  Georgics,  the  first  of  which  shows  the  poet  at  his  desk  with  Augustus,  the  emperor, 
Pallas  (Minerva),  and  as  signs  of  the  contents  of  the  books  Neptune  and  Triptolemus. 
Each  of  the  four  books  has  a  number  of  carefully  considered  illustrations,  again  drawing 
on  what  the  artist  knew.  The  illustrations  of  bee-keeping  which  accompany  book  IV  are 
particularly  striking,  even  if  Orpheus  and  Euridice  on  fol.  cxviii  are  somewhat  stiff.  A 
similar  general  allegorical  frontispice  heads  the  Aeneis,  and  all  the  great  scenes  of  that 
great  poem  are  depicted:  there  is  a  wonderful  wooden  horse  with  a  very  angry-looking 
Laocoon,  with  an  enormously  long  spear,  there  is  a  vivid  Polyphemus  on  fol.  cciii,  a 
frightening  Fama  in  book  IV  (fol.  xxcv  verso),  a  very  biblical  looking  Dido  and  her  sister 
Anna  with  a  fearsome  high  priest  on  fol.  ccx  verso,  and  very  martial  cuts  in  the  closing 
books  of  Virgil  and  in  the  additional  book  XIII  of  Mapheus  Vegius,  including  on  fol.iiii 
verso  of  that  section  a  splendid  feast  with  Aeneas,  Lavinia,  Ascanius  and  Latinus  sitting 
down  to  a  fine  peacock.  Even  the  poems  of  the  Appendix  Virgiliana  (plus  some  others  like 
the  Aetna}  are  prolifically  illustrated:  there  is  a  particularly  inviting  garden  with 
musicians,  on  fol.  vi  verso  at  the  end  of  the  Copa  Surisca,  of  which  Helen  Waddell  would 
surely  have  approved;  a  group  of  drunkards  outside  a  thriving  whorehouse  (fol.  vii  verso) 
and  beneath  it  a  cut  of  two  black  men  belabouring  a  peasant,  a  cut  of  games  with  dice 
and  cards  on  fol.ix  recto,  a  neatly  fronded  Priapus  on  fol.  xiii  with  a  bevy  of  chaste 
beauties  shielding  their  eyes  ('Expurgatio  Seb.  B.  cur  priapeia  imprimi  prohibuerit'  is  the 
running  title).  The  final  cut  is  on  fol..  xxxiii  and  is  of  Virgil  lying  dead  'Hic.Maro.Docte. 
laces.' 


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122 

These  illustrations  show  a  detailed  knowledge  of  the  text  of  Virgil  and  of  mythology,  but, 
of  course,  the  styles  and  locations,  like  those  in  Horae,  are  strictly  contemporary. 
In  a  prefatory  poem,  Brant  traces  the  history  of  depiction,  listing  many  painters  and 
sculptors  of  antiquity,  and  stressing  the  importance  of  illustration  for  the  indoctus: 

His  legere  historias  commentaque  plurima  doctus: 
Nee  minus  indoctus  perlegere  ilia  potest. 
Dardanium  Aeneam  doctum  non  legimus  usque: 
Picturam  potuit  lerlegere  ille  tamen' 

The  reader  may  wonder,  he  says,  why  he  has  given  these  praises  of  illustration.  It  is,  he 
continues,  that  the  reader  may  enjoy  the  pictures  he  provides,  which  no  one  had  done 
before,  and  enjoy  them  with  ease: 

Quam  nisi:  ut  has  nostras  quas  pinximus  ecce  tabellas 

Virgilio:  charas  tu  quoque  habere  velis 

Has  tibi  nemo  ante  hac  tarn  plane  ostenderat  usquam: 

Nemo  tibi  voluit  pingere  Virgilium 

Nunc  memorare  potes  monochromata  cuncta  maronis 

Quam  leuiter:  pictis  lector  amice  locis. 

This  copy,  like  those  in  the  British  Library,  contains  nine  leaves  in  gathering  H;  this  ninth 
leaf  is  unrecorded  by  Adams,  nor  was  apparently  present  in  the  Klotz  copy  (sale  Christie's, 
2  November  1994,  lot  259).  Adams  also  records  a  copy  which  has  gatherings  DD  and  EE 
are  printed  in  Gothic,  rather  than  Roman  type,  and  without  the  four  woodcuts  which 
normally  appear  on  D2  and  7. 


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Provenance:  John  Holmes,  with  bookplate;  Dyson  Perrins,  with  bookplate 

References:  VD16  VI 332;  Proctor  9888;  Schmidt,  Histoire  litteraire  de  I'Alsace,  ii,  369  no. 
163;  P.  Kristeller,  Die  Strassburger  Buchillustration,  1888,  no.  99;  B.  Schneider  Vergil 
Handschriften  und Drucke  der  HAB.  Wolfebuttel:  HAB,  1982,  D5;  and  see  the  essays  by 
E.  W.  Leach  and  Ruth  Mortimer  in  The  early  illustrated  book  Essays  in  honor  ofLessingJ 
Rosenwalded.  S.  Hindman.  Washington:LC,  1982 

£30,000-40,000 
€48,500-64,500 

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INDEX  OF  AUTHORS  AND  TEXTS 


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Altaner:  Berthold  Altaner,  Patrologie,  7th  ed.,  rev.  Alfred  Stuiber 
(Freiburg  i.  Br.,  1966) 

Arnold:  Klaus  Arnold,  Johannes  Trithemius  (1462-1516),  2nd  ed. 
(Wiirzburg,  1991) 

Bekker:  Aristotelis  opera,  ed.  Immanuel  Bekker,  vols.  1-2  (Berlin, 
1831) 

Busard  1996:  H.  L.  L.  Busard,  'Lateinische  Euklidiibersetzungen 
und  -bearbeitungen  aus  dem  12.  und  13.  Jahrhundert',  in 
Mathematische  Probleme  im  Mittelalter,  ed.  Menso  Folkerts  (1996: 
WolfenbiittelerMittelalter-Studien,  10),  139-57 

CC:  Corpus  Christianorum,  series  Latina 

CPL:  Eligius  Dekkers,  Clavis patrum  Latinorunr  (Steenbrugge, 
1995) 

Cont.  Eras.:  Contemporaries  of  Erasmus,  ed.  Peter  G.  Bietenholz  (3 
v.,  Toronto,  1985-87) 

CTC:  Paul  Oskar  Kristeller,  et  al.,  eds.,  Catalogus  translationum  et 
commentariorum:  Mediaeval  and  Renaissance  Latin  Translations  and 
Commentaries  (Washington,  D.C.,  1960 — ) 

DAGL:  Dictionnaire  des  auteurs  grecs  et  latins,  ed.  Wolfgang 
Buchwald  . . .  mis  a  jour  par  Jean  Denis  Berger  &  Jacques  Billen 
(Turnhout,  1991) 

DBI:  Dizionario  biografico  degli  Italiani 

Distelbrink:  Balduinus  Distelbrink,  Bonaventurae  scripta  authenti- 
ca,  dubia,  velspuria  critice  recensita  (Rome  1975  =  Subsidia  scien- 
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DSB:  Dictionary  of  Scientific  Biography 

During:  Ingemar  During,  Aristotle  in  the  Ancient  Biographical 
Tradition  (Goteborg,  1957) 

Eubel  I-II:  Conradus  Eubel,  Hierarchia  catholica  medii aevi ...  ab 
anno  1198  usque  ad  annum  1431,  (II:)  ...  ab  anno  1431  usque  ad 
annum  1503  (Minister,  1914  [II,  ed.  altera],  1901  [I]) 

Flashar:  Die  Philosophic  der  Antike,  3:  Altere  Akademie - 
Aristoteles  -  Peripatos,  ed.  Hellmut  Flashar  (Basel/Stuttgart,  1983) 

Geanakoplos:  Deno  John  Geanakoplos,  Constantinople  and  the 
West  (Madison,  Wis.,  1989) 

Geldner:  Ferdinand  Geldner,  Die  deutschen  Inkunabeldrucker  (2  v., 
Stuttgart,  1968-70) 

Glorieux:  Jean  Gerson,  Opera,  ed.  Mgr.  Palemon  Glorieux  (10  v., 
Paris,  1961) 

Grabmann:  Martin  Grabmann,  Die  Werke  des  HI.  Thomas  von 
Aquir?  (Minister,  1949) 

Kaeppeli:  Thomas  Kaeppeli,  Scriptores  ordinis praedicatorum  Medii 
Aevi  (4  v.,  Rome,  1970-93) 


Kl.  Pauly.  Der  kleine  Paufy,  ed.  Konrat  Ziegler  et  al.  (5  v.,  Munich, 
1975) 

LMA:  Lexikon  des  Mittelalter s,  ed.  Robert  Auty  et  al.,  10  v., 
Munich  1979-99  (PrinUL  Hist.  Grad.  D 10 1.5  L49) 

Lohr:  Charles  H.  Lohr,  SJ,  'Medieval  Latin  Aristotle  commen 
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I];  26  (1970)  135-216  [J-Johannes  Juff];  27  (1971)  251-351 
[Johannes  de  Kanthi-M];  28  (1972)  281-396  [N-Richardus] ;  29 
(1973)  93-197  [Robertus-end] ;  30  (1974)  119-44 
[Supplementary  Authors] 

LThK:  Lexikon  fur  Theologie  und  Kirchtr,  ed.  Josef  Hofer  et  al.  (10 
v.,  Freiburg  i.  Br.,  1957-67) 

MGG:  Musik  in  Geschichte  und  Gegenwart,  ed.  Friedrich  Blume 
(18  v.,  Kassel,  1949-86  [2nd  ed.  in  progress]) 

Munoz  Sendino:  Jose  Munoz  Sendino,  ed.,  La  escala  de  Mahoma: 
Traduccion  del  arabe  al  castellano,  latin  y  frames,  ordenadapor 
Alfonso  X  el  Sdbio  (Madrid,  1 949) 

Murdoch  1968:  John  E.  Murdoch,  'The  Medieval  Euclid',  Revue 
ttesynthese3rdseT.  49-52  (1968)  67-94 

NDB:  Neue  Deutsche  Biographic 

Needham:  Paul  Needham,  'Venetian  Printers  and  Publishers  in 
the  Fifteenth  Century',  La  Bibliofilia  100  (1998  [1999])  157-200 

Neue  Pauly.  Der  neue  Pauly,  ed.  Hubert  Cancik  &  Helmuth 
Schneider  (Stuttgart,  1996 — ) 

New  Grove:  New  Grove  Dictionary  of  Music  and  Muscians,  ed. 
Stanley  Sadie  (20  v.,  London,  1980) 

OCD:  Oxford  Classical  Dictionary* ,  ed.  Simon  Hornblower  & 
Antony  Spawforth  (Oxford,  1 996) 

Orlandi:  Aldo  Manuzio  editore:  Dediche,  prefazioni,  note  ai  testi, 
ed.  and  transl.  Giovanni  Orlandi  (2  v.,  Milan,  1975) 

Reichhart:  Gottfried  Reichhart,  OSB,  Beitrdge  zur  Inkunabelkunde 
[pt.  1 :  Die  Correctoren  der  Buchdruckereien  des  funfzehnten 
Jahrhunderts]  (Leipzig,  1895) 

Rupprich:  Hans  Rupprich,  Die  Deutsche  Literatur  vom  spdten 
Mittelalter  bis  zum  Barock,  1:  Das  ausgehende  Mittelalter, 
Humanismus  und  Renaissance,  1370-1520  (Munich,  1970:  H.  de 
Boor  &  R.  Newald,  eds.,  Geschichte  der  Deutschen  Literatur,  vol. 
4) 

Sicherl:  Martin  Sicherl,  Griechische  Erstausgaben  des  Aldus 
Manutius:  Druckvorlagen,  Stellenwert,  kultureller  Hintergrund 
(Paderborn,  1997) 

Stegmiiller,  Rep.  bibl.:  Fridericus  Stegmiiller,  Repertorium  biblicum 
medii  aevi  (1 1  v.,  Madrid  1940  [=1950]-80)  —  Sent.:  Repertorium 
commentariorum  in  Sententias  Petri  Lombardi  (2  v.,  Wtirzburg, 
1947) 


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Thorndike  &  Kibre:  Lynn  Thorndike  and  Pearl  Kibre,  A 
Catalogue  oflncipits  of  Medieval  Scientific  Writings  in  Latin, 
Revised ...  Edition  (Cambridge,  Mass.,  1963) 

TLGC:  Thesaurus  Linguae  Graecae,  Canon  of  Greek  Authors  and 
Works,  3rd  edition,  ed.  Luci  Berkowitz  &  Karl  A.  Squitier 
(Oxford,  1990)  [authors,  arranged  sequentially,  are  given  reference 
numbers,  and  the  texts  classed  under  them  decimal  numbers;  page 
numbers  are  given  below  only  when 

VL:  Die  deutsche  Literatur  des  Mittelalters:  Verfasserlexikon,  2nd 
edition,  ed.  Kurt  Ruh  et  al.  (10  v.,  Berlin,  1978-1999) 

Wadding-Sbaralea:  Lucas  Wadding,  Scriptores  ordinis  minorum; 
Joh.  Hycinthus  Sbaralea,  Supplementum  et  castigatio  (3  v.,  Rome, 
1906-22) 

Zumkeller:  Adolar  Zumkeller,  OSA,  Manuskripte  von  Werken  der 
Autoren  des  Augustiner-Eremitenordens  in  mitteleuropa'ischen 
Bibliotheken  (Wiirzburg,  1966:  Cassiciacum,  vol.  20) 


Texts  entered  by  titles:  Auctoritates  Aristotelis  —  Auslegung  der 
heiligen  Messe  —  Biblia  Latina  —  Corona  Beatae  Mariae 
Virginis  —  Gesta  Romanorum  —  Heiligen  Leben  —  Historia 
septem  sapientum  Romae  —  Kalender  —  Lucidarius  — 
Margarita  Davitica  —  Martyrologium  (Viola  sanctorum)  — 
Plenarium  —  Processus  iudiciarius  —  Speculum  Christiani 


ABRAHAM  ibn  Ezra,  c.  1089/90-1 164/7,  Toledo  [Encyc.jud. 
8.1 163;  DSB  4.502] 

De  nativitatibus  (Dixit  quoque  abraham  iudeus:  optimum 
instrumentorum  ad  inveniendum  gradum  orientem 
[Thorndike  &  Kibre,  446];  an  anonymous  Latin  version  of 
the  mid- 12th  cent.,  not,  as  BSB-Ink.  1-130,  a  version  by 
Petrus  de  Abano  (c.  1250-13 15/1 8):  Alexander  Birkenmajer, 
A  propos  de  1'Abrahismus',  Archives  Internationale  d'histoire 
des  sciences  3  (1950)  378-90,  esp.  p.  385  n.  24]  (with: 
Henricus  Bate,  Magistralis  compositio  astrolabii):  II  1  (A-7) 

Adelardus  Bathoniensis  /  Adelard  of  Bath,  early  12th  cent. 
[Sharpe,  23]:  tr.  Euclides 

AEGIDIUS  Romanus  (Aegidius  de  Columna),  c.  1243-1 3 16,  OESA, 
probably  not  a  member  of  the  noble  Colonna  family 
[DAGL,350;LThK1.193]: 

De  regimine  principum  (excerpt:  Lib.  1.3,  chs.  1-9:  De  XII 
passionibus  animae:  Duodecim  sunt passiones  animae  videlicet 
amor ...)  [Zumkeller  54,  this  excerpted  form  not  noted]:  II 
5 (A-297) 

Aegidius  de  Tebaldis,  fl.  1257,  of  Parma,  notary  to  Alfonso  X  of 
Spain  [Munoz  Sendino,  84]:  translator  from  Castilian  to 
Latin  of  Haly 


AESOPUS,  i.e.  the  life  of  Aesop  and  a  composite  fable  compilation, 
translated  by  Heinrich  Steinhowel  with  extensive  editorial 
prose,  and  dedicated  by  him  to  Duke  Sigmund  of  Tyrol;  his 
sources  include  Rinuccio  da  Castiglione's  Latin  Aesopic 
translation,  printed  Milan,  1474  (Goff  A-99),  with  added 
stories  selected  from  the  verse  fables  of  Avianus  (cf.  OCD, 
226),  Petrus  Alfonsi  (DAGL,  683),  and  Poggio  Bracciolini 
(DAGL,  706).  For  a  detailed  account  of  contents  and 
sources,  see  Gerd  Dicke,  Heinrich  Steinhowels  Esopus  und 
seine  Fortsetzer  (Tubingen,  1994),  40  sqq.]:  II  2  (A- 122) 

ACRICOLA,  Rudolf,  1444-1485,  of  Frisia,  humanist  [Cont.  Eras. 
1.15;  VL  1.84;  G.  C.  Huisman,  Rudolph  Agricola:  A 
Bibliography  of  Printed  Works  and  Translations  (Groningen, 
1985)]:  Commendatory  verse  in  Joh.  Tritheim,  De  laudibus 
S.  Annae 

ALANUS  de  Insulis,  c.l  128-1202/3,  Lille,  OCist,  'Doctor  univer- 
salis'  [VL  1 .97;  Alain  de  Lille:  Textes  inedits,  ed.  with  lengthy 
introduction  by  Marie  Therese  d'Alverny  (Paris,  1965)] 
Doctrinale  ahum  seu  liber  parabolarum  (with  anonymous 
commentary:  [Iste  liber  duobus  modis  solet  nominan]) 
[authenticity  questioned,  but  favored  by  d'Alverny,  51-2]:  II 
3  (A- 174) 
see  also:  Ludolphus  de  Saxonia 

Albertus  de  Orlamunda,  13th  cent.,  OP,  of  Orlamiinde 

(Thuringia):  see  Albertus  Magnus,  Philosophia  pauperum 

ALBERTUS  Magnus,  c.l  193-1280,  OP,  Paris,  Regensburg,  Cologne 
[VL  1.124] 

ps.-:  Compendium  theologicae  veritatis  [Kaeppeli  1982: 
Hugo  (Ripelin)  Argentinensis;  with  shortened  ending;]:  II  4 
(A-236),  27.2  (A-237:  with  table  of  Thomas  Dorniberg) 
ps.-:  Mariale  (Opus  virginis  gloriosae)  [A.  Kolping,  'Zur 
Frage  der  Textgeschichte,  Herkunft  und  Entstehungszeit  der 
anonymen  Laus  Virginis  (bisher  Mariale)  Alberts  des 
Grossen',  Recherches  de  theologie  ancienne  et  medievale  25 
(1958)  285-328]:  II  6.1  (A-272),  7  (A-273) 
ps.-:  De  laudibus  Beatae  Mariae  Virginis:  see  Richardus  de 
Sancto  Laurentio 

ps.-?:  Philosophia  pauperum,  sive  Isagoge  in  libros 
Aristotelis  physicorum,  de  coelo  et  mundo,  de  generatione  et 
corruptione,  meteororum  et  de  anima  [Lohr  vol.  23.345  and 
Kaeppeli  112  query  or  doubt  an  attribution  to  Albertus  de 
Orlamunda,  q.v.  After  book  IV  of  Philosophia  pauperum  is 
an  interpolated  extract  from  Aegidius  Romanus,  De 
regimine  principum  [Zumkeller  54],  treated  as  a  tract  De 
XII  passionibus  animae  (Duodecim  sunt  passiones  animae 
videlicet  amor  . . .);  book  V  is  then  treated  as  a  separate  tract 
(fo.  49r)  De  intellectiva] :  II  5  (A-297) 

ALCINOUS,  2nd  cent.?  [OCD,  54;  Neue Pauly  1.506;  formerly 

assimilated  with,  now  generally  accepted  as  a  different  figure 
from  Albinos  of  Smyrna,  2nd  cent.  AD  Platonist]:  De  doctri- 
na  Platonis  in  lAMBI.ICHUS 


Aldegatus,  Marcus  An tonius,  fl.  1490s,  of  Mantua:  commendato 
ry  verse  in  Bossus 


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ALEXANDER  Aphrodisiensis  [fl.  c.  200:  OCD,  61;  Neue  Pauly 
1.480]  (pseudo-):  see  Aristoteles,  Opera  (Gr.),  vol.  IV 

Alten,  Bartholomaeus  de,  M.D.,  of  Nussia,  late  15th  cent. 
[Reichhart,  10]:  editor  of  Haly 

AMBROSIUS,  Saint,  c.340-397,  Bp.  of  Milan  from  374  [CPL,  39; 
OCD,  71;  Neue  Pauly  \5%2;VL  1.327] 
Opuscula  I  (De  officiis  -  Vita  S.  Agnetis  -  Passio  SS.  Vitalis 
et  Agricolae  -  Passio  SS.  Protasii  et  Gervasii  -  Paulinus 
Mediolanensis,  Vita  Ambrosii):  II  8  (A-560) 
Opuscula  II  (Opuscula  I  +  De  obitu  S.  Satyri  -  De  resurrec- 
tione  et  cruce  domini  -  de  bono  mortis):  II  9  (A-561) 
De  officiis  ministrorum  [CPL  144]:  Opuscula  I,  II 
De  bono  mortis  [CPL  129]:  Opuscula  II 
De  lapsu  virginis  [CPL  149]  (extract):  see  ps.-Hieronymus, 
In  iuvenem  sceleris  perpetratorem 
ps.-:  Vita  S.  Agnetis  [BHL  156]:  Opuscula  I,  II 
ps.-:  Passio  S.  Vitalis  et  Agricolae  [BHL  8690]:  Opuscula  I, 
II 

ps.-:  Passio  S.  Protasii  et  Gervasii  et  de  inventione  corpo- 
rum  eorum  [BHL  3513-4]:  Opuscula  I,  II 
ps.-:  De  obitu  S.  Satyri  [BHL  7509]:  Opuscula  II 
ps.-:  De  resurrectione  et  cruce  domini  [CPPM  1.93-4: 
Maximus  of  Turin]:  Opuscula  II 

ANASTASIUS  I,  d.  401,  pope  from  399  [CPL,  528;  Altaner,  56] 
Epistola  ad  Johannem  Hierosolymitanam  [CPL  1640]:  in 
Hieronymus,  Epistolae  et  tractatus 

ANGELUS,  Johannes  (Johann  Engel),  d.  1512,  of  Aichach  [VL 
2.523;  DSB  1.165] 

Astrolabium  planum  in  tabulis  ascendens  (Etsi plurima 
astrologiae  divini  numinis  accommoda  astrolabii  officio  demon- 
strentur),  with  dedication  by  Erhard  Ratdolt  to  Albrecht  IV, 
Duke  of  Bavaria:  I  1  -  II  10  (A-71 1) 

Anghiera,  Pietro  Martire  d'  (Petrus  Martyr  Anglerius),  1457- 
1526,  of  Arona  (It.),  to  Spain  1486,  acquaintance  of 
Christopher  Columbus,  etc.,  historian  of  early  American 
explorations  [DBI  3.257]:  commendatory  verse  in  Antonius 
Nebrissensis 

ANSELMUS,  Saint,  c.  1033-1 109,  Arbp.  of  Canterbury  from  1093 
[Sharpe,  59;  Diet,  spir  1.690;  VL  1.375;  Opera,  ed. 
Franciscus  S.  Schmitt  (6  v.,  Edinburgh,  1936-61),  cit.  as 
SAO  infra] 

Opuscula  (with  a  prefatory  index,  Annotatio  principalium 
sententiarum  ...  Anselmi';  contents  infra):  II  11  (A-761) 
Cur  deus  homo  (SAO  2.37) 
De  incarnatione  verbi  (SAO  1 .277) 

De  conceptu  virginali  et  originali  peccato,  with  anonymous 
Declaratio  cuiusdam  de  eodem  (SAO  2.139) 
Monologion  (SAO  1.13) 
Proslogion  (SAO  1.93) 
De  processione  Spiritus  Sancti  (SAO  2.175) 
De  casu  diaboli  (SAO  1.233) 

Liber  apologeticus  adversus  Gaunilonem  Pro  insipiente 
(SAO  1.130)  (prefaced  by  the  text  of  Gaunilo,  SAO  1.125) 
Meditatio  ad  concitandum  timorem  (De  miseria  hominis) 
(SAO  3.76) 
De  sacramentis  ecclesiae  epistola  (SAO  2.239) 


De  sacrificio  azimi  et  fermentati  epistola  (SAO  2.221) 

ps.-:  Expositio  membrorum  et  actuum  Dei 

ps.-:  De  voluntate  Dei 

De  concordia  praescientiae  at  praedestinationis  et  gratiae 

Dei  cum  libero  arbitrio  (SAO  2.243) 

De  libero  arbitrio  (SAO  1.207) 

De  veritate  (SAO  1.173) 

ps.-:  De  Anselmi  similitudinibus  [has  been  attributed  to 

Eadmer  of  Canterbury  (as  in  Migne  PL)  or  to  Alexander  of 

Canterbury  (A.  Wilmart,  1929),  but  see  Sharpe,  p.  49:  'now 

attributed  to  Robert  de  Braci',  Augustinian  prior  of 

Lanthony,  d.  1137] 

ps.-:  De  mensuratione  crucis 

ps.-:  Meditationes  (Domine  Deus  meus  da  cordi  meo)  [ps.- 

Augustinus:  extracts,  ch.  1-9] 

Meditatio  redemptionis  humanae  (SAO  3.84) 

ps.-:  Dialogus  Anselmi  et  Beatae  Mariae  Virginis  de  pas- 

sione  Jesu  Christi.[cf.  VL  1.378] 

ps.-:  Stimulus  amoris.  [Ecbertus  Schonaugiensis] 

ps.-:  Homilia  in  Lucam  (10.38:  'Intravit  Jesus  in  quoddam 

castellum')  [Radulphus  Cantuariensis?  (CIBN);  Hervaeus 

Burgidalensis?  (BSB-Ink.)] 

ps.:  De  excellentia  virginis  Mariae  [Eadmerus 

Cantuariensis] 

Epistolae  (101,  112,416,  121,  168,258,231,37,65,  160, 

161,  188,  281,  285:  SAO  vols.  3-5) 

ps.-:  De  imagine  mundi  [Honorius  Augustodunensis: 

extracts,  lib.  i-ii] 

Invocatio  matris  virginis  et  filii  eius  (Sancta  et  inter  sanctos 

post  deum  singulariter)  -  Ex  gestis  Anselmi  colliguntur 

forma  et  mores  beatae  Mariae  [extracts]  (SAO  3.13,  etc.) 

ANTONIUS  Nebrissensis,  Aelius  (Elio  Antonio  de  Nebrija), 

1441/4-1522,  humanist  professor  at  Salamanca  and  Alcala 

[Cont.  Eras.  3.9;  Antonio  Odriozola,  'La  caracola  del  bibliofi- 

lo  Nebrisense',  Revista  bibliogrdfica  y  documental,  1  (1947)  3- 

114] 

Vafre  dicta  philosophorum,  dedicated  to  Juan  Rodriguez  de 

Fonseca,  Bp.  of  Badajoz  1495-99,  with  additional  verses  by 

Nebrija  and  by  Pet.  Martyr  d'Anghiera:  II  108  (GW  2244) 

APULEIUS,  of  Madaura  (Numidia),  Carthage,  fl.  c.  125-1 59  [OCD, 
131;  Neue  Pauly  1.910] 

Asinus  aureus  (Commentarii  a  Philippo  Beroaldi  conditi  in 
Asinum  Aureum  . . .:  commentary,  verse,  Vita  Apulei,  and 
dedication  to  Petrus  de  Varda,  metropolitan  of  Kalocza-Bacs 
and  chancellor  of  the  king  of  Hungary  [Eubel  2.147]  by 
Philippus  Beroaldus;  commendatory  verse  by  Coelius 
Calcagninus):  II  12  (A-938) 

ARGYROPOULOS,  Johannes,  c.1393-1487,  Constantinople,  Padua, 
Florence,  Rome  [DAGL,  75;  DBI  4.129;  Geanakoplos,  ch. 
4]:  tr.  Aristoteles,  De  anima 

ARISTOPHANES,  c.445-386  BC  [OCD,  163;  Neue  Pauly  1.1122] 
Comoediae  novem  (Greek):  the  first  8  plays  in  the  recension 
of,  and  with  prolegomena  and  scholia  by,  Demetrius 
Triclinius  (1.  Plutus  [TLGC  19.1 1].  —  2.  Nebulae  [Nubes: 
19.3].  —  3.  Ranae  [19.9].  —  4.  Equites  [19.2].  —  5. 
Acharnes  [Acharnenses:  19.1].  —  6.  Vespae  [19.4].  —  7. 
Aves  [19.6].  —  8.  Pax  [19.5].  —  9.  Contionantes 


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[Ecclesiazusae:  19.10]);  edited,  and  with  Greek  preface  by 
Marcus  Musurus;  Latin  dedication  by  Aldus  Manutius  to 
Daniel  Clarius;  2  Greek  epigrams  by  Scipio  Fortiguerra; 
other  Greek  introductory  material  belonging  to  the 
Triclinian  recension,  including  a  life  of  Aristophanes 
[TGLC,  399:  4158.1]  and  grammatical  and  metrical  sections 
by  or  attributed  to  Hephaestion,  Demetrius  Triclinius, 
Platonius,  and  Thomas  Magister  [Nigel  Wilson,  'The 
Triclinian  Edition  of  Aristophanes',  Classical  Quarterly  56 
(1962)  31-47;  Sicherl  ch.  3,  'Die  Editio  princeps  des 
Aristophanes']:  I  2  (A-958) 

ARISTOTELES,  384-322  BC  [OCD,  165;  Neue  Pauly  1 . 1 1 34] 

Opera  (Greek)  [Aldus's  collection  in  5  volumes  of  the  known 
Greek  works  of  Aristotle  and  Theophrastus  (some  pseudo-  or 
doubtful,  some  with  authenticity  still  under  discussion,  some 
fragmentary);  with  related  texts  of  Porphyry,  ps.-Philo,  and 
ps. -Alexander  Aphrodisiensis.  The  commendatory  and  intro 
ductory  material  includes  Aldus's  5  Latin  dedications  to 
Alberto  Pio,  Prince  of  Carpi  (Orlandi  III,  VIII,  VII,  IX, 
XIII),  and  Greek  verses  —  Alexander  Agathemeros 
(Bondinus):  to  the  reader  (Gr.)  —  Scipio  Carteromachus 
(Fortiguerra):  to  students  of  philosophy  (Gr.)  and  Greek 
verses  —  Anonymous  verses  on  the  Organon  —  Diogenes 
Laertius,  Vita  Aristotelis  and  Vita  Theophrasti  (Gr.:  Vitae 
philosophorum,  TLGC  4.1,  extracts;  the  life  of  Aristotle  ed. 
During,  29-56)  —  ps.- Johannes  Philoponus,  Vita  Aristotelis 
(Gr.:  the  Vita  vulgata,  ed.  During,  120-39)  — ps.-Galenus, 
De  historia  philosophica  (Gr.:  TLGC  530.42].  The  list 
below  gives  the  contents  in  sequence,  vols.  I-V,  using  the 
printed  foliation  of  vols.  II-V  and  printed  signatures  of  vol.  I, 
which  lacks  foliation.  In  vol.  IV  there  are  five  cycles  of  quir 
ing  and  foliation,  indicated  as  i-v  before  the  folio  numbers. 
Aristotelian  texts  are  further  specified  by  their  page-column 
numbers  in  Bekker,  which  are  included  in  all  later  editions. 
Texts  are  indicated  as  pseudo-Aristotle  according  to  the 
grouping  of  Flashar,  288.  On  manuscripts  identified  as 
printer's  copy,  see  Sicherl,  ch.  2.]:  II  13  (A-959) 
I.  (Organon),  1  Nov.  1495: 

1.  Porphyryius,  Isagoge  (A3-B4v)  [TLGC  2034.6] 

2.  Categoriae  (B5-D6)  [TLGC  86.6;  Bekker  la] 

3.  De  interpretation  (D6v-E8)  [TLGC  86.17;  Bekker  I6a] 

4.  Analytica  priora  (E8v-N6v)  [TLGC  86.1.1;  Bekker  24a] 

5.  Analytica  posteriora  (al-e8,  v°  blank)  [TLGC  86.1.2; 
Bekker  7 la] 

6.  Topica  (fl-p4)  [TLGC  86.44;  Bekker  lOOa] 

7.  Sophistic!  elenchi  (p4-s5)  [TLGC  86.40;  Bekker  I64a] 

II.  (Natural  Philosophy,  part  1),  Feb.  1497: 

8.  Physica  (l-87v,  88  blank)  [TLGC  86.31;  Bekker  184a] 

9.  De  caelo  (89-137)  [TLGC  86.5;  Bekker  268a] 

10.  De  generatione  et  corruptione  (137v-62)  [TLGC  86.13; 
Bekker  3 14a] 

11.  Meteorologica  (I62v-2l4v)  [TLGC  86.26;  Bekker 
338a] 

12.  ps.-Arist.:  De  mundo  ad  Alexandrum  (215-35v)  [TLGC 
86.28;  Bekker  39 la] 

13.  ps.-Philo:  De  mundo  (226-36)  [TLGC  18.47:  extracts 
from  Philo,  particularly  his  De  aeternitate  mundi,  TLGC 
18.29] 


14.  Theophrastus,  De  igne  (236-45v)  [TLGC,  387:  93.5] 

15.  Theophrastus,  De  vends  (245v-54)  [TLGC  93.10,  fr.  5] 

16.  Theophrastus,  De  lapidibus  (254-60v)  [TLGC  93.4] 

17.  ps. -Theophrastus  (Aldus:  "incerti  authoris"):  De  signis 
aquarum  et  ventorum  (261-8v)  [TLGC  93.10  (Fragmenta), 
5  (De  ventis),  6  (De  signis  tempestatum)] 

III  (Natural  Philosophy,  part  2).  29  Jan.  1497: 

18.  De  historia  animalium  (2-l45v)  [TLGC  86.14;  Bekker 
486a5] 

19.  De  partibus  animalium  (l46-204v)  [TLGC  86.30; 
Bekker 639al] 

20.  De  incessu  animalium  (205-14)  [TLGC  86.15;  Bekker 
704a4] 

21.  De  anima  (2l4v-46v).  [TLGC  86.2;  Bekker  402a] 

22.  De  sensu  et  sensibilibus  (247-59v)  [TLGC  86.41; 
Bekker  436a;  Parva  nat.  1  ] 

23.  De  memoria  et  reminiscentia  (260-3v)  [TLGC  86.24; 
Bekker  449b;  Parva  nat.  2] 

24.  De  somno  et  vigilia  (264-9)  [TLGC  86.42;  Bekker 
453b;  Parva  nat.  3] 

25.  De  insomniis  (269-73)  [TLGC  86.16;  Bekker  458a; 
Parva  nat.  4] 

26.  De  divinatione  per  somnum  (273v-5)  [TLGC  86.8; 
Parva  nat.  5;  Bekker  462b] 

27.  De  motu  animalium  (275v-81v)  [TLGC  86.21;  Bekker 
698a] 

28.  De  generatione  animalium  (282-362)  [TLGC  86.12; 
Bekker  7 15a] 

29.  De  longitudine  et  brevitate  vitae  (362v-5)  [TLGC 
86.20;  Bekker  464b;  Parva  nat.  6] 

30a  +  b  De  juventute  et  senectute,  de  vita  et  morte,  de  res- 
piratione  (365v-79)  [TLGC  86.18  +  86.37:  Bekker  467blO- 
480b30.  Aldus  subdivides  with  initial  for  De  respiratione,  fo. 
368v;  Parva  nat.  7] 

31.  ps.-Arist.:  De  spiritu  (379v-85)   [TLGC  86.43;  Bekker 
48  la] 

32.  ps.-Arist.:  De  coloribus  (385v-94)  [TLGC  86.7;  Bekker 
79  la] 

33.  ps.-Arist.:  Physiognomia  (394v-404)  [TLGC  86.32; 
Bekker  805a] 

34.  ps.-Arist.:  De  mirabilibus  auscultationibus  (404v-18v) 
[TLGC  86.27;  Bekker  830a] 

35.  ps.-Arist.:  De  Xenophane,  Zenone  et  Gorgia  [i.e.,  De 
Melisso,  Xenophane,  Gorgia]  (419-26)  [TLGC  86.47; 
Bekker  974a] 

36.  ps.-Arist.:  De  lineis  insecabilibus  (426v-35)  [TLGC 
86. 19;  Bekker  968a] 

37.  Theophrastus,  De  piscibus  (435v-7)  [  Theophrastus,  his 
Psychological,  Doxographical,  and  Scientific  Writings,  ed. 
William  W.  Fortenbaugh  &  Dimitri  Guptas  (New 
Brunswick,  N.J.,  1992),  347-85  (ed.  Robert  W.  Sharpies)] 

38.  Theophrastus,  De  vertigine  (437v-9)  [TLGC  93.10  fr. 
8] 

39.  Theophrastus,  De  lassitudine  (439-41)  [TLGC  93.10  fr. 
7] 

40.  Theophrastus,  De  odoribus  (44lv-51)  [TLGC  93.10  fr. 
4] 

41.  Theophrastus,  De  sudore  (451v-5v)  [TLGC  93.10  fr.  9] 


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42.  De  historia  animalium,  lib.  X  ([459-65v]:  an  appendix 
quire,  with  note  by  Aldus  re  the  late  arrival  of  copy  to  set 
from)  [TLGC  86.14  Bk.  10;  Bekker  633b] 

IV  (Natural  Philosophy,  part  3),  1  June  1497: 

43.  Theophrastus,  De  historia  plantarum  (i.  1-1 19)  [TLGC 
93.1] 

44.  Theophrastus,  De  causis  plantarum  (i.l  19v-226, 
v°blank)  [TLGC  93.2] 

45.  ps.-Arist.:  Problemata  (ii.1-1 16v)  [TLGC  86.36;  Bekker 
859a] 

46.  ps.-Alexander  Aphrodisiensis,  Problemata  (iii.l-42v) 
[TLGC  732.2] 

47.  ps.-Arist.:  Mechanica  (iv.lr-12v)  [TLGC  86.23;  Bekker 
847a] 

48.  Metaphysica  (v.lr-1 16v)  [TLGC  86.25;  Bekker  980a] 

49.  Theophrastus,  Metaphysica  (v.l  17r-21v)  [TLGC  93.6] 

V  (Ethics,  Economics,  and  Politics),  June  1498: 

50.  Ethica  Nicomachea  (2-93v,  [94]  blank)  [TLGC  86.10; 
Bekker  1094a] 

51.  Politica  (95-209v,  [210]  blank)  [TLGC  86.35;  Bekker 
1252a] 

52.  ps.-Arist.:  Economica  (fragmentary)  (unfoliated  quire  of 
12  leaves,  12v  blank,  '19'  on  12r)  [TLGC  86.29;  Bekker 
1343a] 

53.  Magna  moralia  (210-45v)  [TLGC  86.22;  Bekker  1 18 la] 

54.  Ethica  Eudemica  (246-316)  [TLGC  86.9;  Bekker 
12l4a] 

LATIN  VERSIONS: 

De  anima  [TLGC  86.2]  (Lat.),  tr.  Johannes  Argyropoulos, 
with  title-page  Epigramma  (Pythia  fatidici  monuere  oracula 
Phoebi  \  . . .);  ed.  Wolfgang  Mosnauer  with  commendatory 
verse  and  dedication  to  Georg  Puecher,  pastor  in  Wels:  II  1 5 
(A-972) 

De  animalibus  (Lat.),  i.e.  the  collection  of  De  historia  ani 
malium  [TLGC  86.14],  De  partibus  animalium  [86.30], 
and  De  generatione  animalium  [86.12],  tr.  Theodore  Gaza 
with  dedication  to  Pope  Sixtus  IV;  ed.  Ludovicus 
Podocarthus:  I  3  (A-973) 

De  coelo  [TLGC  86.5]  (Lat.),  with  comms.  of  Thomas 
Aquinas  [Lohr  29.166  no.  6;  Grabmann,  296  (no.  4)]  and 
Petrus  de  Alvernia  [Lohr  28.337  no.  4];  ed.  Hermannus  de 
Virsen:  II  14  (A-978) 
see  also:  Auctoritates  Aristotelis 

Auctoritates  Aristotelis  (Auctoritates  Arestotelis,  Senece,  Boetii, 
Platonis,  Apulei,  Affricani,  Porphirii,  et  Gilbert!  Porretani) 
(Cum  enim  aristotelicae)  [Les  Auctoritates  Aristotelis  :  unflo- 
rilege  medieval,  ed.  and  comm.  Jacqueline  Hamesse 
(Louvain,  1974);  see  review  by  Jean-Francois  Gilmont,  'Edi 
tion  critique  et  support  du  texte:  a  propos  des  Auctoritates 
Aristotelis',  Scriptorium  31  (1977),  283-94]:  II  16  (GW 
2814),  17(A-1196) 

AUGUSTINUS  Aurelius  (Saint),  354-430,  Bp.  of  Hippo  [CPL,  97; 
OCD.215;  New  Pauly  2.293;  VL  1.531) 
Opuscula,  I  and  II,  with  (I:)  Sequentia  in  solemnitate  sanc- 
ti  Augustini  (De profundis  tenebrarum  mundo  lumen  exit 


clarum)  —  (I-II:)  Possidius  Calamensis,  De  vita  et  moribus 
sancti  Augustini;  commendatory  verses  (Barbara  quid 
prodest  vel  quid  romana  trophea)  —  (II:)  colophon  verses 
(Has  iuuat  arguta  scrutari  indagine  verum):  II  20  (A-1217: 
Opusculal),  II  21  (A-1219:  Opusculall) 
Ars  praedicandi  (=  De  doctrina  christiana,  book  IV, 
anonymously  edited  and  with  preface  by  Stephan  Hoest: 
Canon  pro  recommendatione  huius  famosi  operis  (Cum  sit 
res  non  solum  presumptuosa) :  I  4  (A- 1 227) 
Confessiones  [CPL  251]:  Opusculal-ll 
De  agone  christiano  [CPL  296]:  Opuscula  II 
De  animae  quantitate  [CPL  257]:  II  95.4  (A- 1225) 
De  caritate  [CPL  284  sermo  350]:  Opuscula  II 
De  consensu  evangelistarum  [CPL  273]:  Opuscula  II;  II  18 
(A- 1257) 

De  cura  pro  mortuis  gerenda  [CPL  307]:  Opuscula  I-II 
De  decem  chordis  [CPL  284  sermo  9;  CPPM  1.456]: 
Opuscula  II 

De  disciplina  christiana  [CPL  310]:  Opuscula  II 
De  [diversis]  quaestionibus  LXXXIII  [CPL  289]:  Opuscula 
II 

De  divinatione  daemonum  [CPL  306]:  Opuscula  I-II 
De  doctrina  christiana  [CPL  263] ;  see  also  Ars 
praedicandi:  Opuscula  I-II 

De  moribus  ecclesiae  catholicae  [CPL  26 1  ]:  II  22  (A- 
1296) 

De  musica  [CPL  258]:  Opuscula  II 
De  vera  religione  [CPL  264]:  Opuscula  I-II 
De  beata  vita  [De  vita  beata]  [CPL  254]:  Opuscula  I-II 
Enchiridion  ad  Laurentium  [de  fide,  spe  et  caritate]  [CPL 
295]:  Opusculal-ll 

Epistola  ad  Julianum  Demetriadis  matrem  (Domine  debitis 
in  christo  officiis  honorandae  . . .  filiae)  [CPL  262,  Ep.  188]: 
in  Hieronymus,  Epistolae  et  trac tatus -  [ibid.,  Ep.  55]:  see 
ps.-Hieronymus,  De  celebratione  paschae 
Expositio  evangelii  Johannis  [CPL  278]:  II  22  (A- 1275) 
Quaestiones  evangeliorum  [CPL  275]:  Opusculall 
Regula  [tertia]  de  communi  vita  clericorum  (Ante  omnia 
fratres  charissimi  diligatur  deus)  [CPL  1839b;  CPPM 
2.3592a],  in  Opuscula  I  with  prefatory  epistle  of  Eusebius 
Corradus  to  Sixtus  IV,  'de  errore  scribentium  sanctum 
Augustinum  fuisse  heremitam',  and  his  Annotatio  brevissi- 
ma  in  errorem  scribentium  sanctum  Augustinum  fuisse 
heremitam:  Opuscula  I-II 

Sermo  de  pastoribus  (Spes  tota  nostra  quia  in  christo)  [PL 
284,  46]:  in  Hieronymus,  Epistolae  et  tractatus 
Sermones  II  de  vita  et  moribus  clericorum  suorum  [CPL 
284,  sermones  355-6]:  Opusculal-ll 

ps.-:  Soliloquia  animae  ad  deum  (Cognoscam  te  domine  cog- 
nitormeus)  [CPPM  2.3071:  13th-cent.  compilation  from 
Augustine,  Hugh  of  St.  Victor,  and  John  of  Fecamp]: 
Opuscula  I-II 

ps.-:  Contra  V  haereses  (Debitor  sum  fateor)  [CPL  4 10; 
CPPM  1.1204:  Quodvultdeus,  sermo  10]:  in  Hieronymus, 
Epistolae  et  tractatus 

ps.-:  De  spiritu  et  anima  [De  anima  et  spiritu]  (Prol.: 
Quoniam  dictum  est  mihi)  [CPPM  2.153:  Cistercian  anony 
mous,  late  12th  cent..  Leo  Norpoth,  Der pseudo-augustinis- 
che  Traktat:  De  spiritu  et  anima  (Cologne,  1971)]:  Opuscula 


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I  (abridged  recension,  33  chapters)  -II  (full  text,  65  chap 
ters) 

ps.-:  De  assumptione  beatae  Mariae  virginis  (Prohemium: 
Ad  interrogata  de  virginis  matris  domini  resolutione  temporali 
—  [ch.  1]:  Quia profiindissime  & sua  dignitate altissime sum 
responsurus  questioni:  lectorem  meum  obsecro)  [CPPM  1.161: 
school  of  Anselm,  c.l  100?]:  Opuscula  I-II 
ps.-:  De  bono  disciplinae  (Multi  sunt  qui  sanae  doctrinae 
aduersantur)  [CPL  1002,  CPPM  1.1 122:  Valerianus 
Cemeliensis]:  Opuscula  II 

ps.-:  De  cognitione  verae  vitae  (Prohemium:  Sapientia  del 
que  os  muti  aperuit  et  rudibili  animali  humana  verba  formare 
tribuit)  [CPPM  2.156:  Honorius  Augustodunensis]: 
Opuscula  I-II 

ps.-:  De  contemptu  mundi  (Audite fratres  charissimi  salu- 
tiferam  nostri patris  doctrinam)  [CPPM  1 . 1 1 2 1  =  1 1 86: 
sermo  59  of  ps.-Aug.,  Sermones  LXXVI  ad  fratres  in  eremo 
(CPPM  1.1 127:  Flemish  compilation,  12th  or  13th  centu 
ry)]:  Opuscula  I-II 

ps.-:  De  contritione  cordis  (Nihil  certius  morte  ac  incertius 
horn  mortis]  [CPPM  2.3073:  chapters  8-29  of  CPPM 
2.3072h,  ps.-Aug.,  Meditationes  (Eta  tune  homuncio):  late 
12th  century,  derived  from  Anselmus,  Proslogion]: 
Opuscula  I-II 

ps.-:  De  convenientia  X  praeceptorum  et  X  plagarum 
Aegypti  (Non  sine  causa  fratres  dilectissimi  preceptorum  legis) 
[CPL  1008:  Caesarius  Arelatensis,  sermo  100A  (ed. 
Germain  Morin,  CC  103.413)]:  Opuscula\-l\ 
ps.-:  DeXII  abusionum  gradibus  (Primus  abusionis  gradus, 
si  sine  operibus  bonis)  [CPL  1 106;  CPPM  2.3067;  Lapidge 
&  Sharpe  339:  Hibernian  anonymous,  mid-7th  century]: 
Opuscula  I-II 

ps.-:  De  ebrietate  (Frequenter  caritatem  vestram)  [CPL 
1008,  CPPM  1.1080:  Caesarius  Arelatensis] :  Opuscula  U 
ps.-:  De  fide  ad  Petrum  diaconum  (Epistolam  fili  Petre  tue 
caritatis  accepi  in  qua  significasti  te  velle  ierosolimam  pergere) 
[CPL  826;  CPPM  2.152:  Fulgentius]:  Opuscula  l-ll 
ps.-:  De  honestate  mulierum  (Nemo  dicat  fratres  quod  tem- 
poribus  nostris  martirum  certamina  non  possunt  esse)  [CPL 
1008:  Caesarius  Arelatensis,  sermo  41,  De  fuga  mulierum]: 
Opuscula  I-II 

ps.-:  De  oboedientia  et  humilitate  (Nihil  sic  Deo  placet) 
[CPL  605,  CPPM  1.1123=1181:  Hieronymus]:  Opuscula 
II 

ps.-:  De  diffmitionibus  orthodoxae  fidei  et  ecclesiasticis 
dogmatibus  (Credimus  unum  esse deum  et patrem  etfilium  et 
spiritum  sanctum)  [CPL  958,  CPPM  2.174:  Gennadius 
Masssiliensis]:  Opusculall 

ps.-:  De  triplici  habitaculo  ( Tria  sunt  sub  omnipotentis 
manu  habitacula)  [CPL  1006  note;  CPPM  2.155:  Patricius 
episcopus,  later  1 1th  century]:  Opuscula  I-II 
ps.-:  De  vanitate  hums  saeculi  (In  hac  vita positi fratres) 
[CPPM  1.1 120=1 184:  extracts  from  Eligius,  Bp.  of  Noyon 
(d.  660),  Sermo  de  supremo  iudicio,  CPL  2096]:  Opuscula 
II 

ps.-:  De  vera  et  falsa  poenitentia  (Quantum  sit  appetenda 
gracia  penitentie  omnis  auctoritas  clamat)  [CPPM  2.3081: 
anonymous,  variously  dated  9th- 1 1th  cents.]:  Opuscula  I-II 
ps.-:  De  vita  christiana  (Ego primus peccator  et  ultimus) 


[CPL  730,  CPPM  2.157:  Pelagius  or  his  circle,  early  5th 
cent.]:  Opusculall 

ps.-:  Epistola  ad  Cyrillum  de  magnificentiis  beati 
Hieronymi  ( Gloriosissimae  christianae fidei  athletae)  [BHM 
903,  CPPM  2.145  ep.  18:  14th  cent.,  Italy,  Dominican]:  in 
Hieronymus,  Epistolae  et  tractatus 

ps.-:  Manuale  de  verbo  dei  (Quoniam  in  media  laqueorum 
positi  sumus)  [CPPM  2.3074:  anonymous,  early  13th  cent.; 
CIBN  A-669:  expanded  recension,  with  36  chapters]: 
Opuscula  I-II 

ps.-:  Meditationes  (Domine  deus  meus  da  cordi  meo) 
[CPPM  2.3072:  mostly  extracts  from  Jean  de  Fecamp,  per 
haps  an  Italian  1 5th-cent.  compilation  within  the 
Augustinian  order] :  Opuscula  l-ll 

ps.-:  Scala  paradisi  (Cum  die  quadam  corporali  manuum 
labore  occupatus)  [CPPM  2.3077:  Guigo  II  Carthusiensis]: 
Opuscula  I-II 

Soliloquia  ( Volventi  mihi  multa)  [CPL  252],  with  ps.-Aug. 
[but  anon,  in  this  edition],  Speculum  peccatoris:  II  95.5 
(A- 1333 +1337) 

ps.-:  Speculum  peccatoris  (Quoniam  fratres  carissimi  in  via 
huius  seculi  fugienties)  [CPPM  2.3076:  anonymous  13th- 
cent.  compilation]:  Opuscula  II  -  see  Soliloquia  (Volventi 
mihi  multa) 

Auslegung  der  heiligen  Messe  (Incip.:  Messe  singen  oder  lesen  wer 
das  thun  sol,  wenn,  wye,  oder  wo)  [VL  6.446: 
'Messerklarung']:  I  5  (A- 1396) 

AVICENNA,  980-1037,  at  court  of  Isfahan  [LMA  1.925;  Encyc. 
Islam  3.941} 

Metaphysica  (Lat.),  ed.  Franciscus  de  Macerata  and 
Antonius  Fracantianus:  II  23.1  (A- 1431) 

BACHIARIUS,  monachus,  fl.  early  5th  cent.  [CPL,  198;  AJtaner,  37] 
Epistola  ad  Evagrium  de  levita  lapso:  see  ps. -Hieronymus 

Badius,  Jodocus,  Ascensius,  c.1461/62-1535,  scholar,  printer,  and 
publisher  [Cont.  Eras.  1.79;  Ph.  Renouard,  Bibliographic  des 
impressions  et  des  oeuvres  dejosse  Bade  Ascensius  imprimeur  et 
humaniste(3  v.,  Paris,  1908)]:  Commendatory  verse  in 
Tritheim,  De  laudibus  S.  Annae 

BARBERIIS,  Philippus  de  (Barbieri,  Filippo),  1426-1487,  OP 
Syracuse;  inquisitor  for  the  kingdom  of  Sicily  1476  [DBI 
6.21 7;  Kaeppeli  3.271] 

Discordantiae  sanctorum  doctorum  Hieronymi  et 
Augustini  (Duo  luminaria  magna)  [Kaeppeli  3371],  followed 
by:   [6v:]  Sibyllarum  et  prophetarum  de  Christo  vaticinia  - 
[20r] :  Proba  Falconia,  Cento  vergilianus  (extract)  [36v]  - 
ps.-  Thomas  Aquinas:  Praefatio  super  symbolum  Athanasii 
-  [45v]:  Explanatio  super  orationem  dominicam  -  [49v]: 
Explanatio  super  salutationem  angelicam  -  [52v]: 
Explanatio  super  Te  Deum  -  [58r]:  Explanatio  super  Gloria 
in  excelsis  -  [61r]:  Donatus  theologus;  with  Philippus  de 
Lignamine's  dedication  to  Pope  Sixtus  IV,  describing 
Barberiis  as  a  kinsman,  affinis  meus:  II  24  (B-l  19) 

BARTOLUS  de  Saxoferrato,  1313/14-1357,  jurist,  Perugia,  Bologna 
[DBI  6.640]:  see  Processus  iudiciarius 


256 


Beissel,  Jodocus,  d.  1514,  of  Aachen,  jurist,  councillor  of  the  Duke 
of  Austria  [Cont.  Eras.  1.119,  NDB  2.22;  also  wrote  dedica 
tion  of  GoffB-296:  Joh.  Beets,  Commentum  super praeceptis 
decalogi,  Louvain:  Aeg.  van  der  Heerstraten,  i486]: 
Commendatory  verse  in  Joh.  Tritheim,  De  laudibus  S. 
Annae 

Bellatus,  Bartholomaeus,  d.1479,  of  Feltre,  OFM  Conventual, 
theology  lecturer,  University  of  Bologna  [DBI  7.614]:  part 
editor  of  Joh.  Duns  Scotus 

Bergamo,  Petrus  de,  OP  Bologna,  fl.  1452-d.  1482  [Kaeppeli 
3.219;  Bonaventura  Kruitwagen,  5.  Thomae  de  Aquino 
Summa  opusculorum  (Kain,  1924),  82;  author  of  the  Tabula 
operum  Thomae  Aquinatis,  Goff  P-450  et  seq.  (Kaeppeli 
3210)]:  ed.,  Thomas  Aquinas,  Commentaria  in  epistolas  S. 
Pauli 

BERNARDUS  Claravallensis  (Bernard  of  Clairvaux),  Saint,  c.1090- 
1 153  [Diet.  spir.  1.1454;  VL  1.754] 

Sermones  de  tempore  et  de  s. metis  et  de  diversis  (with  con 
tents  register  by  anonymous  compiler,  addressed  to  Drach 
from  Heidelberg,  31  Oct.  1481,  and  commendatory  verse,  / 
nunc  i  tandem  totum  Bernarde per  orbem  I  . . .:  II  26  (B-437) 
Flores  (Colophon:  Flores  de  diversis  sermonibus  et  epistolis 
beati  Bernardi)  [?compiled  by  Guillelmus  deTornaco]:  II 
27.1  (B-389) 

ps.-:  Meditationes  de  interior!  homine  (Multi  multa  sciunt  et 
seipsos  nesciunt):  II  70.3  (B-404  +  J-437) 

BERNARDINUS  de  Siena,  1380-1444,  OFM  Obs.  [DBI  9.215; 
Diet,  spir  1.1 518;  VL  1.789] 
Sermones  de  evangelic  aeterno:  II  25  (B-350) 

BEROALDUS,  Philippus,  1453-1505,  Bologna  [DBI  9.382;  Cont. 
Eras.  1.135] 

De  felicitate  opusculum  (with  dedication  to  Jakob  II, 
Margrave  of  Baden,  and  commendatory  verses,  including  on 
the  German  invention  of  printing  [  O  Germania  muneris 
repertrix\  ...):  II  28  (B-482) 

Heptalogos  (Libellus  quo  septem  sapientium  sententiae  dis- 
cutiuntur;  with  dedication  to  Johannes  von  Wartenberg, 
Bohemian  scholasticus):  II  29  (B-487) 
Comm.:  Apuleius 

BERTHOLDUS,  14th  (or  15th?)  cent.,  Germany,  OP;  possibly  iden 
tical  with  Bertholdus  Friburgensis,  German  translator  of 
Johannes  Friburgensis,  Summa  confessorum  [VL  1.801, 
Kaeppeli  1.241]: 

Zeitglocklein  [Latin:]  Horologium  devotionis  circa  vitarn 
Christi  [Kaeppeli  670  (German),  671  (Latin)]:  I  6.1  (B-506) 

Biblia  Latina  (with  the  enlarged  prologue  set  first  found  in  F. 
Renner's  1475  Venice  edition  [Goff  B-541];  Capitulare  lec- 
tionum  et  evangeliorum,  and  verses  Fontibus  ex  graecis,  both 
first  printed  in  this  edition;  Casus  summarii  prefixed  to  the 
four  evangelists;  and  printed  marginal  concordances  in  the 
New  Testament,  first  found  in  Richel's  8  Sept.  1477  Basel 
edition  [Goff  B-553]):  II  30  (B-561) 


BlENATUS,  Aurelius,  c.  1450-1496,  of  Milan,  Bp.  of  Martorano 
(Calabria)  from  1485;  au.  of  Epitomata  elegantiarum 
Laurentii  Vallae  (GW  4343-5)  [DBI  10.369;  Eubel,  206] 
Oratio  in  funere  Laurentii  de  Medicis  (16 Apr.  1492):  II  31 
(B-667) 

BlNDO  de  Senis,  d.  1390,  OESA,  prior  in  Siena  1383  [Zumkeller, 
96;  LThK  2.483] 
Distinctiones  exemplorum  veteris  et  novi  Testamenti:  see 

Ant.  Rampigollis 

BOCCACCIO,  Giovanni,  1313-1375,  Florence  [DBI  10.838] 
De  Claris  mulieribus:  II  32  (B-717) 

Bodianus,  Franciscus  Vitalis,  fl.  Vicenza,  1499  [briefly  cited  CTC 
2.368]:  ed.  Martianus  Capella 

BONAVENTURA  (Johannes  Fidanza  Bonaventura),  Saint,  c.1217- 
1274,  OFM  [DBI  1 1.612;  Diet.  spir.  1.1768;  VL  1.937; 
Distelbrinck]: 

Tractatus  et  libri  quamplurimi  (with  Octavianus  de  Martinis, 
Oratio  in  vitam  et  merita  S.  Bonaventurae,  and  his  dedica 
tion  to  card.  Giuliano  della  Rovere):  II  34  (B-927) 
Apologia  pauperum  contra  calumniatorem  [Distelbrink 
26] :  in  Tractatus  et  libri 

Breviloquium  [Distelbrink  1]:  Tractatus  et  libri 
Collationes  de  decern  praeceptis  (Sermones  de  ...) 
[Distelbrink  55/1]:  in  Tractatus  et  libri 
De  praeparatione  ad  missam  (Prol.:  Adhonorem  gloriosae  et 
individuae  Trinitatis  -  ch.  1 :  Primo  accessurus  ad  mensam  cae~ 
lestis  convivii)  [Distelbrink  24]:  in  De  triplici  via,  infra 
De  reductione  artium  ad  theologiam  [Distelbrink  3]:  in 
Tractatus  et  libri 

De  regimine  animae  (Epistola  ad  dominam  Blankam  regi- 
nam  Hispaniae  ...)  [Distelbrink  16]:  in  Tractatus  et  libri 
De  triplici  via  (Parvum  bonum  /  Regimen  conscientiae  / 
Fons  vitae)  (Prol.:  Ecce  descripsi  earn  tibi  tripliciter-  ch.  1: 
Nunc primo  meditationis  formarn)  [Distelbrink  18:  recently 
attributed  to  Hugo  de  Balma,  q.v.]:  in  Tractatus  et  libri  - 
(with  ps. -Methodius,  Revelationes  -  Bonaventura,  De 
praeparatione  ad  missam):  II  33  (B-970) 
De  V  festivitatibus  pueri  lesu  [Distelbrink  15]:  in  Tractatus 
et  libri 

Epistola  ad  omnes  provinciales  (cavens  a  frequentia  discur- 
suum,  ab  importunitate  quaestuum,  a  sumptuositate  aedifi- 
ciorum,  librorum,  vestium  ac  ciborum,  a  praedicatione  con 
tra  praelatos  coram  laicis,  et  a  litigiosa  invasione 
sepulturarum  et  testamentorum)  [Distelbrink  40]:  in 
Tractatus  et  libri 

Epistola  ad  omnes  provinciales  et  custodes  (de  reformandis 
fratribus)  [Distelbrink  39]:  in  Tractatus  et  libri 
Epistola  continens  XXV  memorialia  [Distelbrink  42] :  in 
Tractatus  et  libri 

Epistola  de  sandalis  apostolorum  (Epistola  de  eo  quod 
Christus  et  apostoli  . . .  incesserunt  discalciati)  [Distelbrink 
45]:  in  Tractatus  et  libri 

Epistola  de  tribus  quaestionibus  (Epistola  ad  magistrum 
innominatum  eliminans  errorem  contra  regulam  beati 
Francisci)  [Distelbrink  46]:  in  Tractatus  et  libri 


257 


Itinerarium  mentis  in  deum  (In principio)  [Distelbrink  19]: 

in  Tractatus  et  libri 

Lignum  vitae  [Distelbrink  21]:  in  Tractatus  et  libri 

Quaestiones  disputatae  de  perfectione  evangelica  (Tractatus 

de  paupertate  Christi  contra  magistrum  Wilhelmum) 

[Distelbrink  5]:  in  Tractatus  et  libri 

Soliloquium  [Distelbrink  23]:  in  Tractatus  et  libri 

ps.-:  Centiloquium  (Prol.:  Ecce  descripsi  earn  tibi  tripliciter- 

pars  1 :  Malum  considerare)  [Distelbrink  67:  compilation  by 

Johannes  Marchesinus?]:  in  Tractatus  et  libri 

ps.-:  De  VII  gradibus  contemplationis  (Contemplativorum 

aquilonis)  [Distelbrink  107:  Thomas  Gallus]:  in  Tractatus  et 

libri 

ps.-:  Expositio  orationis  dominicae  (Pater  noster  ..."  Oratio 

haec  privilegiata  est)  [Distelbrink  140]:  in  Tractatus  et  libri 

ps.-:  Liber  de  tribus  ternariis  peccatorum  infamibus 

[Distelbrink  114]  in  Tractatus  et  libri 

ps.-:  Pharetra:  in  Tractatus  et  libri 

ps.-:  Speculum  beatae  Mariae  virginis  (Quoniam  ut  ait  beat- 

us  leronimus  Nulli  dubium  est)  [Distelbrink  214:  Conradus 

deSaxonia]:II35(B-959) 

ps.-:  Viginti  passus  de  virtutibus  bonorum  religiosorum  (. . . 

de  informatione  spiritualis  vitae)  (Si  vis  in  spiritu  proficere) 

[Distelbrink  238:  David  de  Augusta]:  in  Tractatus  et  libri 

Commentary  on  Petrus  Lombardus,  Sententiae,  q.v. 

[Distelbrink  2;  Stegmiiller  Sent.  Ill] 

Bondinus,  Alexander  (Agathemeros),  d.a.  1505,  Venice,  Greek 
scholar,  friend  of  Nicolo  Leoniceno  [DBI  1 1.735;  Orlandi 
2.318  n.  12]:  commendatory  matter  in  Aristoteles,  Opera 

(Gr.) 

BOSSUS,  Matthaeus,  c.l  427-?  1502,  OSA  Lateran  prior  in  many 
houses  including  Verona,  procurator  general  of  the  order, 
1486-8  [DBI  13.341] 

De  instituendo  sapientia  animo  (with  dedication  to 
Severinus  Calcus,  OSA  Lateran,  Verona,  19  Sept.  1485; 
commendatory  verse  by  Marcus  Antonius  Aldegatus  [Illustret 
quae  vere  animum  sapientia  nostrum  I  ...]):  II  36  (B-1043) 

BRANT,  Sebastian,  1458-1521,  humanist  jurist  [Cont.  Eras,  i.190; 
VL  1.992] 

Carmina  (with  commendatory  verse  to  the  publisher's  dedi 
catee  Wynmar  von  Ercklens,  decanus  of  Aix-la-Chapelle):  I  8 
(B-1099) 

BURLEY,  Walter,  1275-1344  or  after,  Oxford  and  Paris  [Sharpe, 
709;  C.  Martin,  'Walter  Burley',  in  Oxford  Studies  Presented 
to  Daniel  Callus  (Oxford,  1964)  194-230] 
De  vita  et  moribus  philosophorum  [Jan  Prelog,  'Die 
Handschriften  und  Drucke  von  Walter  Burleys  Liber  de  uita 
et  moribus  philosophorum',  Codices  manuscripti9  (1982)  1- 
18;  GW  5.669,  re  recensions  A  ('Cologne'),  with  complete 
text,  and  B  (S.  German,  or  better  'Koberger')  omitting  13 
lives  and  with  other  differences]:  II  38  (B-1316  [rec.  A]),  37 
(B-1319[rec.  B]). 

Bussi,  Johannes  Andrea,  1417-1475,  ofVigevano,  Bp.  of  Acci 
1463,  of  Aleria  (Corsica)  1466  [DBI  15.565;  Eubel  2.88, 
95]:  ed.  Cyprianus 


CAESARIUS  Arelatensis,  c.470-542,  Bp.  of  Aries  from  530  [CPL, 
329;  Neue  Pauly  2.926;  Altaner,  475].  Sermo  47:  see  ps.- 
Augustinus,  De  ebrietate. 

Caietanus,  Thomas  de  Vio,  1469-1 534,  OP,  General  of  the  order 
1508-18,  Cardinal  1517,  Bp.  of  Gaeta  1519  [Cont.  Eras. 
1.239]:  Commentator  of  Thomas  Aquinas,  De  ente  et  essen- 
tia;  with  his  dedication  to  Benedictus  Tyriaca. 

Calcagninus,  Coelius  (Celio  Calcagnini),  1479-1541,  Ferrara; 
Opera  aliquot,  Basel:  Froben  &  Episcopius,  1544,  F°  [DBI 
16.492;  Cont.  Eras.  1.242]:  commendatory  verse  in 
Apuleius 

Calphurnius,  Johannes  (Giovanni  Calfurnio  /  Giovanni  Planza  de' 
Rufiniono  da  Bordgona),  d.  1503;  prof,  of  rhetoric,  Padua, 
from  c.1474;  editor  of  various  classical  and  humanist  texts, 
Venice  and  Vicenza,  1470s  and  after;  author  of  a  Simon  of 
Trent  verse  libel  (Goff  C-62:  Trent,  c.  1481)  [Vittorio  Cian, 
'Un  umanista  bergamasco  del  Rinascimento:  Giovanni 
Calfurnio',  Archivio  strico  lombardo  4.t\\  sen  14  (1910)  221- 
48;  Reichhart,  36]:  ed.:  Ovidius 

Campanus  of  Novara,  d.  1296  [DSB  3.23;  DBI  17.420],  ed.  and 
comm.,  Euclides 

Carteromachus:  see  Forteguerri 

Celtis,  Conrad,  1459-1508,  poet  laureate  [NDB  3.181;  Lewis 
Spitz,  Conrad  Celtis  (Cambridge,  Mass.,  1957)]: 
Commendatory  verse  in  Tritheim,  De  laudibus  S.  Annae 

Chalcondylas,  Demetrius,  1423-1511,  Byzantine  scholar,  teacher 
in  Perugia,  Padua,  Florence,  and  Milan  [Cont.  Eras.  1.290; 
DBI  16.542]:  editor  of  Homer 

Chromatius,  d.  407,  Bp.  of  Aquileia  c.387  [CPL,  75;  Altaner, 
457],  pseudo:  see  ps.-Hieronymus,  Praefationes  in 
Martyrologium  Hieronymianum;  Responsio  ad 
Chromatium  et  Heliodorum 

CICERO,  Marcus  Tullius,  106-43  BC,  Rome  [OCD,  1558;  Neue 
Paufy2.\\9\] 

De  inventione:  in  Rhetorica  ad  C.  Herennium,  infra 
De  officiis  -  Paradoxa  stoicorum  (with  medieval  com 
mendatory  verses  Tullius  hesperios  cupiens  componere  mores 
and  Versus  XII  sapientum  (Baxilius:  Hie  iacet  Arpinas 
manibus  tumulatus  amici),  a  commendation  by  Apollonius 
Rhodius  ( Te  nempe  Cicero  et  laudo  et  admiror);  and  Horatius, 
carm.  iv.7,  Diffugere  nives):  II  39  (C-575) 
Tusculanae  quaestiones:  II  41  (C-631) 
ps.-:  Rhetorica  ad  C.  Herennium  -  De  inventione  (ed. 
Omnibonus  Leonicenus  [emendata  manu  sunt  docta  \ 
Omniboni:  quern  dat  utraque  lingua  patrem}):  II  40  (C-672  + 
C-644) 

Compendiosum  scriptum  Psalterii  intentionem  declarans:  see 

Ludolphus  de  Saxonia 

CONRAD  von  Megenburg,  1309-1374,  stud.  Erfurt,  Paris;  teacher 
Vienna,  Regensburg  [VL  5.221] 
Buch  der  Natur:  II  42  (C-845) 


258 


CONRADUS  de  Saxonia,  d.1279,  OFM  Braunschweig,  Hildesheim, 
provincialis  for  Saxony  [VL  5.247;  Diet.  spir.  2.1548] 
Speculum  beatae  Mariae  virginis:  see  ps.-Bonaventura 

Corona  Beatae  Mariae  Virginis  (Prol.:  Signum  magnum  apparuit 
in  caelo)  [attributed  in  the  17th  cent,  to  one  Daniel  Agricola, 
OFM  (Obs.),  Basel,  d.  1515  (Lexicon  der  Marienkunde,  ed. 
K.  Algermissen  [Regensburg,  1967],  1.1251;  that  is,  evident 
ly,  the  author  of  the  Passio  domini  nostrijesu  Christi,  with  Urs 
Graf  woodcuts,  Basel:  Adam  Petri,  1511,  4to,  unmentioned 
in  the  Lexicons  entry  on  Agricola.  Evidence  for  Agricola's 
authorship  of  the  Corono  BMV  is  lacking]:  II  103  (C-923  + 
T-534) 

Corradus,  Eusebius,  1447-1500,  Milan,  OSA  Lateran  [DBI 
29.412;  Reichhart,  50]:  see  Augustinus,  Regula  tertia 

Curtius,  Lancinus,  d.  1512,  of  Milan  [DBI  31.487]:  commenda 
tory  verse  in  Gafurius 

CYRILLUS,  d.  444,  Bp.  of  Alexandria  from  412  [OCD,  422;  Neue 
Pauly  4.309;  Altaner,  283] 
ps.-:  Epistola  ad  Augustinum  de  miraculis  beati  Hieronymi 

(Illius  sancti  Hieronymi gloriosi  cuius  memoria)  [BHM  903, 
CPPM  2.146  ep.  19:  14th  cent.,  Italy,  Dominican]:  in 
Hieronymus,  Epistolae  et  tractatus 

CYPRIANUS,  Thascius  Caecilius,  Saint,  fl.  c.240-d.258,  Bp.  of 
Carthage  from  248/9  [CPL,  11;  OCD,  419;  Neue  Pauly 
3.253;  Altaner,  172] 

Opera  (ed.  Johannes  Andreae  Bussi,  with  dedicatory  letter  to 
Pope  Paul  II,  and  including  as  final  text  De  revelatione  capitis 
beati  Johannis  Baptistae  [BHL  4293:  re  Pepin's  translation  of 
head  of  St.  John  Baptist  to  Angers]):  II  43  (C-1010) 
Epistolae  [CPL  50;  of  the  83  letters  edited  by  G.  Hartel, 
CSEL  3.2  (1871),  the  following  are  omitted:  8,  21-4,  27,  31, 
33-6,  41-2,  62,  71-5,  77]:  Opera 
Ad  Donatum  [CPL  38]:  Opera 
Ad  Demetrianum  [CPL  46] :  Opera 
De  opere  et  eleemosynis  [CPL  47]:  Opera 
Ad  Fortunatum  de  exhortatione  martyrii  [CPL  45]:  Opera 
De  zelo  et  livore  [CPL  49]:  Opera 
De  bono  patientiae  [CPL  48]:  Opera 
De  mortalitate  [CPL  44] :  Opera 
De  habitu  virginum  [CPL  40] :  Opera 
De  catholicae  ecclesiae  unitate  [CPL  41]:  Opera 
Delapsis  [CPL  42]:  Opera 
De  dominica  oratione  [CPL  43] :  Opera 
Quod  idola  dii  non  sint  (Deos  non  esse  quos  colit  vulgus) 
[CPL  57,  CPPM  2.550:  authenticity  questioned,  but 
defended  by  most  recent  editor,  Manlio  Simonetti] :  Opera 
Testimoniaruni  libri  I-II  (Ad  Quirinum  adversus  ludeos) 
[CPL  39]:  Opera 

ps.-:  De  singularitate  clericorum  (Promiseram  quidem  vobis) 
[CPL  62,  CPPM  2.3229]:  Opera 

ps.-:  De  montibus  Sina  et  Sion  (Probatio  capitulorum)  [CPL 
61,  CPPM  2.551]:  Opera 

ps.-:  Carmen  de  ligno  crucis  /  de  Pascha  (Est  locus  ex  omni) 
[CPPM  2.544]:  in  Pico 


Damasus  I,  pope  366-84  [CPL,  525;  Altaner,  354],  pseudo:  see 
ps. -Hieronymus,  Rescriptum  ad  Damasum  papam 

Danhauser,  /Thanhauser,  Petrus,  of  Nuremberg,  M.A.,  fl.  1490s: 
dedicatee  of  and  commendatory  letter  in:  Thos.  a  Kempis, 
Opera  a?  dedication  in  Guillelmus  Alvernus 

DAVID  de  Augusta,  c.  1200/1 0-1 272,  OFM,  novice  master  in 
Augsburg,  Regensburg  [Diet.  spir.  3.42;  VL  2.47] 
De  exterioris  et  interioris  hominis  compositione:  excerpts  in 
Ger.  de  Zutphania  -  see  also  ps.-Bonaventura,  Viginti  passus 

Demetrius  Triclinius:  see  Triclinius,  Demetrius 

Dio  Chrysostom,  c.40/50-after  1 10  AD.  [OCD,  470;  Neue  Pauly 
3.621]:  Vita  Homeri  [TLGC  612.1,  Oratio  53,  De  Homero 
(Orationes,  ed.  J.  de  [Hans  Fried.  Aug.  v.]  Arnim  (Berlin, 
1893-6),  2. 109]:  in  Homer 

Diogenes  Laertius,  3rd  cent.  AD,  place  unknown  [OCD,  474]: 
Vita  Aristotelis  —  Vita  Theophrasti:  in  Aristoteles,  Opera 
(Gr.) 

Directorium  vitae  humanae:  see  Johannes  de  Capua 

DORNIBERG,  Thomas,  c.  1440- 1497,  of  Memmingen,  Dr.  iur.  can. 
Heidelberg,  Ratsadvokat  of  Speyer  [Allan  Stevenson,  The 
Problem  of  the  Missale  speciale  (London,  1967),  240; 
Reichhart,  57]:  table  in  ps.-Albertus  Magnus,  Compendium 
theologicae  veritatis 

DUNS  SCOTUS,  Johannes,  c.  1265-1 308,  OFM  [Sharpe,  239; 
DAGL,  256] 

Quaestiones  in  quattuor  libros  Sententiarum  (Opus 
Oxoniense  version,  ed.  Thomas  Penketh  and  Bartholomaeus 
Bellatus:  GW  7.702):  I  30 

EADMERUS  Cantuariensis  (Eadmer),  d.  a.  1 124,  OSB,  Christ 

Church,  Canterbury  [Sharpe,  104]:  De  excellentia  virginis 
Mariae:  see  ps.-Anselmus 

ECBERTUS  Schonaugiensis  (Ekbert  von  Schonau),  12th  cent.,  OSB 
[VL  2.436] 
Stimulus  amoris:  in  Anselmus 

EPHRAEM  Syrus,  c.306-373,  of  Nisibis  [CPL,  373;  OCD,  530; 
Neue  Pauly  3. IQ9Q;  Diet.  spir.  4.788  and  esp.  815  'Ephrem 
Latin';  VL  2.360;  Altaner,  373] 

Libri  Sancti  Effrem  (De  compunctione  cordis  -  De  iudicio 
dei  et  resurrenctione  -  De  beatitudine  animae  -  De  peni- 
tentia  -  De  luctamine  spiritali  -  De  die  iudicii)  [CPL 
H43]:II44(E-44) 

Eucherius,  Bp.  of  Lyons  [fl.  c.428-50:  CPL,  174;  Altaner,  455]: 
Formulae  spiritalis  intelligentiae  [CPL  488:  extracts]:  see  ps.- 
Hieronymus,  De  essentia  trinitatis 

EUCLIDES  /  Euclid,  early  3rd  century  BC,  Alexandria  [OCD,  564; 
Neue  Pauly  4.238} 

Elementa  in  artem  geometriae  (TLGC  1799.1:  Latin,  tr. 
Adelard  of  Bath;  ed.  and  comm.  Campanus  of  Novara;  with 
Erhard  Ratdolt's  dedication  to  Giovanni  Mocenigo) 
[Murdoch  1968;  Busard  1996]:  II  45  (E-l  13) 


259 


EuSEBlUS  Caesariensis,  c.260-c.340,  Bp.  of  Caesarea  from  c.315 
[OCD,  575;  NeuePaufy4.3Q9;  Altaner,  217] 
Chronicon  (tr.  Hieronymus;  with  the  continuations  of 
Prosper  Aquitanus,  Matthaeus  Palmerius  Florentinus  and 
Matthias  Palmerius  Pisanus,  ed.  Johannes  Lucilius 
Santritter):II47(E-117) 

Historia  ecclesiastica  (Tr:  Rufinus  Aquileiensis):  II  46  (E- 
126:  with  dedication  to  Card.  Guillaume  d'Estouteville) 
De  situ  et  nominibus  locorum  Hebraicorum  (tr. 
Hieronymus,  with  prologue)  [BHM  202]:  in  Hieronymus, 
Epistolae  et  tractatus 

ps.-:  De  vita  et  transitu  Hieronymi  (Multifariam  multisque 
modis)  [BHM  903,  BHL  3866]:  in  Hieronymus,  Epistolae  et 
tractatus 

EUTROPIUS,  presbyter,  fl.  c.400,  place  uncertain  [CPL,  197;  Diet, 
spir.  4. 1729;  Altaner,  370] 
De  perfecto  homine:  see  ps. -Hieronymus 
De  vera  circumcisione:  see  ps. -Hieronymus,  Epistola  de  tes- 
tamento  Geruntii 

FlCINUS,  Marsilius  (Marsiglio  Ficino),  1433-1499,  Florence 

[Com.  Eras.  2.27;  DBI  47.378]:  translator,  editor  and  com 
mentator  of  the  collection  of  Platonic  texts,  IAMBLICHUS, 
including  his  own  treatise  De  voluptate 

Forteguerri,  Scipione  (Carteromachus),  1466-1515,  of  Pistoia, 

humanist  [Cont.  Eras.  2.44;  DBI  49.163]:  Greek  commenda 
tory  material  in  Aristophanes  and  Aristoteles 

Fracantianus,  Antonius,  c.  1450?- 1506,  Vicenza,  Padua  [DBI 
49.522] :ed.  Avicenna 

FRIDOLIN,  Stephan,  c.  1430- 1498,  Nuremberg,  OFM  Obs.  [VL 
2.918;  Petra  Seegets,  Passionstheologie  und 
Passionsfrommigkeit  im  Spatmittelater:  der  Niirnberger 
Franziskaner  Stephan  Fridolin  (Tubingen,  1998)] 
Schatzbehalter  [Anonymous;  attributed  to  Fridolin  in  a 
notice  by  his  friend  Fr.  Matthaeus,  bound  into  a  former 
Rebdorf  OSA  copy,  now  at  Munich  SB  (BSB-Ink  F-263, 
cop.  1,  Ran  293)]:  I  9(5-306) 

GAFURI,  Franchinus,  1451-1522,  Milan,  cathedral  canon  and 
choir  master  [New  Grove  9. 410;  Paul  Hirsch,  'Bibliographic 
der  musiktheoretischen  Drucke  des  Franchino  Gafori', 
Festschrift  fur  Johannes  Wolf,  [ed.  Walther  Lott  et  al.]  (Berlin: 
Martin  Breslauer,  1929)  65-72] 

Theorica  musicae  (with  commendatory  verse  by  Lancinus 
Curtius):  II  48  (G-6) 

Galenus,  129-C.216,  of  Pergamon  [OCD,  621;  Neue  Pauly 
4.748],  pseudo-:  see  Aristoteles,  Opera  (Gr.),  heading 

Callus,  Jodocus,  c.  1459-1 5 17,  of  Ruffach,  student  and  teacher 
Basel,  Heidelberg;  member  of  the  Sodalitas  litteraria 
Rhenana;  his  library  bequeathed  to  the  Franciscans  of 
Ruffach  [NDB  6.55]:  Commendatory  verse  in  Pet.  Schott 

GAZA,  Theodore,  c.l400-c.l477,  Byzantine  scholar  [Cont.  Eras. 
2.81;  Geanakoplos,  ch.  3]:  tr.  of  Aristoteles,  De  animalibus 

GENNADIUS  Massiliensis,  presbyter,  Marseilles,  fl.  late  5      cent. 
[CPL,  309;  Neue  Pauly  4.918;  Altaner,  474] 


De  ecclesiasticis  dogmatibus:  see  ps.-Augustinus,  De  diffini- 
tionibus  orthodoxae  fidei 

De  scriptoribus  ecclesiasticis  [CPL  957]:  see  Hieronymus, 
De  viris  illustribus 

Gerardus  de  Zutphania:  see  Zutphania,  Gerardus  de 

GERSON,Jean  (Charlier  de),  1363-1429,  Cardinal  [VL  2.1266; 
Opera,  ed.  P.  Glorieux  (8  v.  in  10,  Paris,  1960),  cit.  as  Opera 
by  vol.  and  page,  with  Glorieux's  item  numbers  bracketed] 
Opuscula  (De  examinatione  doctrinarum.  —  De  duplici 
statu  in  Dei  ecclesia.  —  Admonitio  brevis  quo  modo  caute 
legendi  sunt  quorundam  libri.  —  De  appellatione  peccatoris 
a  divina  justitia  ad  divinam  misericordiam.  —  De  unione 
ecclesiae.  —  Dubium  de  delectatione  in  servitio  Dei):  110 
Appellatio  peccatoris  ad  divinam  misericordiam  (De  appel 
latione  peccatoris  a  divina  justitia  ad  divinam  misericordiam: 
In  tua  o  regina  coeli  et  mundi  totius  domino)  [  Opera  8.536 
(no.  420)]:  Opuscula 

De  delectatione  quaerenda  in  divino  officio  (Dubium  de 
delectatione  in  servitio  Dei:  Dubitabat  nuper  aliquis  an  delec- 
tatio  cordis)  [Opera8.l6l  (no.  417)]:  Opuscula 
De  examinatione  doctrinarum  (Attendite  a  falsis  prophetis 
clamat  Christus)  [Opera  9.458  (no.  456)]:  Opuscula 
De  meditatione  cordis  (Meditatio  cordis  mei  in  conspectu  tuo 
semper)  [Opera  8.77  (no.  409)]:  in  Thos.  a  Kempis,  Opera 
De  modo  se  habendi  tempore  schismatis  (De  unione  eccle 
siae:  Ad  tollendam  quorundam  in  praesenti  schismate)  [  Opera 
6.29  (no.  256)]:  Opuscula 

De  statibus  ecclesiasticis  (De  duplici  statu  in  Dei  ecclesia: 
Pax  quam  omnes  observare  convenif)  [Opera  9.25  (no.  424)]: 
Opuscula 

Donatus  moralisatus  (Donatus  . . .  per  allegoriam  traductus: 
Panes  orationis  quot  sunt?  Octo.  Quae?  Cognitio  substantiae 
...)  [Opera9.689  (no.  479);  GW  treats  as  pseudo-Gerson]: 
II  95.8  (G-122) 

Epistola  ad  fratrem  Johannem  (Admonitio  brevis  quo  modo 
caute  legendi  sunt  quorundam  libri:  Quia  unum  est  necessari- 
um)  [Opera 2.259  (no.  55)]:  Opuscula 
Monotessaron  (Monotessaron  aut  unum  ex  quatuor  - 
Unum  de  quatuor  cuius  titulus  esse  potest  Tetramonum  vel 
Monotessaron:  Evangelium  latum  esse  et  magnum)  [Opera 
9.254  (no.  450),  with  tables  including  Tabula  Confluentina 
l471']:Ill(G-236) 

Gesta  Romanorum  (German)  ([ch.  1,  Von  dem  sun  Gorgonii]: 
Gorgonius  der  kaiser  wa  z  getualtig  zu  rom  in  der  statt  der  nam 
im  das  allerschonst  weibe)  [VL  3.25;  GW  10903  gives  con 
tents  as  89  stories  from  the  Latin  Gesta  Romanorum,  6  from 
Historia  septem  sapientum]:  I  12  (G-299) 

GOBIUS,  Johannes  [junior],  14th  cent.,  OP  [Kaeppelli  2.442; 
Diet.  spir.  6.542;  VL  3.299] 
Scala  coeli  [Kaeppeli  2369]:  II  49  (G-310) 

GREGORIUS  I,  Saint,  fl.  573-d.  604,  Rome,  Pope  from  590  [CPL, 
552;  OCD,  656;  Neue  Pauly  4. 1216;  Altaner,  466] 
Dialogorum  libri  quattuor  [CPL  1713]:  II  51  (G-405) 
Epistolae  [CPL  1714]:  II  50  (G-415) 

Homiliae  Super  Ezechielem  (Expositio  super  . . .  /  Homeliae 
super...)  [CPL1711]:II52(G-425) 


260 


Gresemund,  Dietrich,  Jr.,  1477-1512,  of  Speyer,  jurist  and  poet, 
canon  of  St.  Stephan,  Mainz  [NDB  7.48;  Hans-Heinrich 
Fleischer,  Dietrich  Gresemund  der  Jiingerer:  Bin  Bericht  zur 
Geschichte  des  Humanismus  in  Mainz  (Wiesbaden,  1967)]: 
Commendatory  verse  in  Tritheim,  De  laudibus  S.  Annae 

GUIGO  II  Garth usiensis,  prior  of  the  Grande  Chartreuse,  d. 

c.l  193  [LMA  4.1777;  Diet.  spir.  6.1 175].  Scala  paradisi:  see 
ps.-Augustinus 

GuiLLELMUS  Alvernus,  c.l  180-1249,  Bp.  of  Paris  1228  [LThK 
\Q.\\27;  Diet.  spir.  6.1182] 

Tractatus  Guilhermi  Parisiensis  (De  sacramentis  [  Cum  inter 
sapientiales  spiritalesque  scientias]  -  Cur  Deus  homo  [Ponam 
ad  hoc  quattuor  radices]  -  De  poenitentia  novus  tractatus 
[Secunda  tabula  post  naufragium]):  II  53  (G-723) 

Guillelmus  deTornaco,  fl.  1264-1275  Paris  [Kaeppeli  2.167; 
LMA  9.190]:  see  Bernardus,  Flores 

GuiLLELMUS  Paraldus,  c.l 200- 1274,  of  Peyraut  (Ardeche),  OP 
[Kaeppeli  2.133;  Diet.  spir.  6.1229] 
Summadevitiis  [Kaeppeli  1622]:  II  54  (P-89) 

HALY  filius  Abenragel  (Albohazen),  1 1th  cent.,  d.  n.b.  1040,  of 
Tunis  [Carmody,  150;  GW  10.570;  Encyc.  Islam  3.688] 
De  iudiciis  astrorum  [Carmody  28.  la:  translated  from 
Arabic  to  Old  Castilian  by  Jehudah  ben  Moshe  ha-Cohen, 
then  from  Old  Castilian  to  Latin  by  Aegidius  de  Tebaldis  & 
Petrus  de  Regio,  1257:  Duodecim  suntsigna  in  celo  similia 
membris  corporis  (Thorndike  &  Kibre,  475)];  ed. 
Bartholomaeus  de  Alten;  dedicated  by  Ratdolt  to  Johann  von 
Werdenberg,  Bishop  of  Augsburg:  I  14  (H-4) 

Hassenstein:  see  Lobkowitz 

Heiligen  Leben,  Der  [VL  3.618:  Nuremberg,  late  14th  century 
(not  before  1384),  probably  a  Dominican  compilation  of 
saint's  lives,  perhaps  intended  as  a  refectory  text  for 
Dominican  nuns;  treated  as  a  German  translation  of  Jacobus 
de  Voragine's  Legenda  aurea  in  most  incunable  catalogues 
before  Vera  Sack's  Freiburg  catalogue,  1985]:  II  55  (J-157), 
56  (Pell-Pol  6538) 

HENRICUS  Bate,  1246-C.1310,  of  Malines  [DSB  6.272;  LMA 
4.2088] 

Magistralis  compositio  astrolabii  (3  Oct.  1274;  Prol.: 
Universorum  entium  radix  et  origo) ,  composed  'ad  petitionem' 
of  Wilhelmus  de  Morbeke,  OP  [Thorndike  &  Kibre,  1604, 
14):  in  Abraham  ibn  Ezra 

Hephaestion,  2nd  cent.  AD,  of  Alexandria,  Greek  grammarian 
[OCD,  681;  NeuePauly^.350]:  Epitome  of  his  Introductio 
metrica  [TGLC  1402.2;  cf.  Hephaestion,  Enchiridion,  ed. 
M.  Cornsbruch,  Teubner  1906]:  in  Aristophanes 

Herbenus,  Matthaeus,  1451-1538,  musician,  rector  of  St. 

Servatius  Maastricht  [MGG  6.190]:  commendatory  verse  in 
Tritheim,  Oratio  de  XII  excidiis 

Herbst,  Johannes,  pupil  of  Johann  Tritheim,  fl.  1490s: 

Commendatory  verse  in  Joh.  Tritheim,  De  laudibus  S. 
Annae 


HERODIANUS,  of  Syria,  fl.  c.  180-238  AD  [OCD,  696;  NeuePauly 
5.467] 

Historia  de  imperio  post  Marcum  [TLGC  15.1,  transl.  by 
Angelus  Politianus;  Incip.:  Qui  res  antiquas  posteris  pro- 
diderunf^:  I  15 

Herodotus  (pseudo),  Vita  Homeri  [TLGC  1805.1;  ed.:  T.  W. 
Allen,  Homeri  opera,  5.192]:  in  Homer 

HERVAEUS  Burgidalensis,  c.l075-c.H50  [LMA  4.2 186;  Diet.  spir. 
7.373]:  see  ps.-Anselmus,  Homilia  in  Lucam 

HEYNLIN,  Johann,  von  Stein  (Johannes  de  Lapide),  c.l  430/33- 

1496,  rector  of  the  Sorbonne,  founder  and  patron  of  the  first 
Paris  printing  shop,  OCarth  Basel  from  1487  [VL  3.1213] 
Resolutorium  dubiorum  circa  celebrationem  missarum 
occurentium:  I  18  (J-374) 

HlERONYMUS  (Eusebius  H.;  Jerome),  Saint,  331/48-419/20,  of 
Stridon  (Dalmatia),  Trier,  Rome,  Antioch,  Bethlehem  [CPL, 
203;  BHM;  OCD,  794;  Neue  Pauly  5. 548;  VL  3.1221; 
Altaner,  394] 

Epistolae  et  tractatus  (collected  and  edited  by  Theodorus 
Lelius;  with  the  Vitae  Hieronymi  of  ps.-Augustinus,  ps.- 
Cyrillus,  and  ps. -Eusebius  and  the  laudation  of  Vergerius; 
136  of  the  158  letters,  ed.  I.  Hilberg,  CSEL  54-6,  including 
a  number  of  letters  to  Jerome  [omitting  Jerome's  letters  nos. 
33,  114,  15 1-4;  and  other  letters  nos.  80,  92-6,  98,  100, 
113,  135-7,  144,  149,  150,  156];  and  a  wide  variety  of  other 
letters,  sermons,  tractates,  and  translations,  authentic  and 
inauthentic;  16  items  [8  of  which  authentic  letters  of 
Jerome]  were  added  to  the  Lelian  corpus  in  this  edition):  II 
57  (H- 169) 

Ad  Paulinianum  de  opere  Didymi  de  spiritu  sancto  [BHM 
258,  prologue]:  Epistolae  et  tractatus 

Adversus  Helvidiam  [BHM  251,  CPL  609]:  Epistolae  et  trac 
tatus 

Adversus  Jovinianum  [BHM  252,  CPL  610]:  Epistolae  et 
tractatus 

Altercatio  Luciferiani  et  Orthodox!  [BHM  250,  CPL  608]: 
Epistolae  et  tractatus 

Apologia  adversus  libros  Rufini  [BHM  255,  CPL  613]: 
Epistolae  et  tractatus 

Contra  Johannem  Hierosolymitanum  [BHM  254,  CPL 
612]:  Epistolae  et  tractatus 

Contra  Vigilantium  [BHM  253,  CPL  611]:  Epistolae  et  trac 
tatus 

De  oboedientia  [BHM  240]:  see  ps.-Augustinus 
De  viris  illustribus,  with  continuation  of  Gennadius 
Massiliensis  [BHM  260,  CPL  616]:  Epistolae  et  tractatus-  II 
95.2  (H-192) 

Dialogi  contra  Pelagianos  [BHM  257,  CPL  615]:  Epistolae 
et  tractatus 

In  die  dominica  Paschae,  I  [BHM  231,  CPL  603]:  Epistolae 
et  tractatus 

In  die  dominica  paschae,  II  (In  psalmum  CXVII)  [BHM 
232,  CPL  604]:  Epistolae  et  tractatus 

In  psalmum  XLI  [BHM  230,  CPL  602]:  Epistolae  et  tracta 
tus 

Liber  tertius  adversus  libros  Rufini  [BHM  256,  CPL  614]: 
Epistolae  et  tractatus 


261 


Sermo  de  die  epiphaniorum  [BHM  227,  CPL  599]: 

Epistolae  et  tractatus 

Sermo  de  quadragesima  [BHM  228,  CPL  600]:  Epistolae  et 
tractatus 

Tractatus  de  Exodo  in  vigilia  Paschae  [BHM  229,  CPL 
60 1  ] :  Epistolae  et  tractatus 

Vita  Malchi  monachi  captivi  [BHM  263,  CPL  619]: 
Epistolae  et  tractatus 

Vita  S.  Hilarionis  [BHM  262,  CPL  618]:  Epistolae  et  tracta 
tus 

Vita  S.  Pauli  primi  eremitae  [BHM  261,  CPL  617]: 
Epistolae  et  tractatus 

ps.-:  Ad  filiam  Mauritii  laus  virginitatis  (Ad  virgines  deo 
dicatas)  (Quantam  in  coelestibus  beatitudinem)  [BHM  313, 
CPPM  2.862:  Pelagianist,  5th  cent.]:  Epistolae  et  tractatus 
ps.-:  Ad  virgines  deo  dicatas  (Solae  idcirco  filiae)  [Regula 
monachorum,  ch.  26]:  Epistolae  et  tractatus 
ps.-:  Carmen  de  puella  (Quis  consoletur  te  virgo filia  Siori) 
[BHM  805,  CPPM  2.3385]:  Epistolae  et  tractatus 
ps.-:  De  celebratione  paschae  (Lectis  litteris  tuis  ubi  me  com- 
monuisti)  [Augustinus,  Ep.  55:  Ad  inquisitiones  Januarii,  lib. 
II] :  Epistolae  et  tractatus 

ps.-:  De  corpore  et  sanguine  Christi  (Magnitudo  caelestium 
beneficiorum)  [BHM  338,  CPPM  2.887]:  Epistolae  et  tracta 
tus 

ps.-:  De  diversis  generibus  leprarum  (Admirabile  divinae  dis- 
positionis)  [BHM  334,  CPPM  2.883]:  Epistolae  et  tractatus 
ps.-:  De  diversis  generibus  musicorum  (Cogor  a  te)  [BHM 
323,  CPPM  2.872:  Carolingian,  possibly  Rabanus]:  Epistolae 
et  tractatus 

ps.-:  De  duobus  filiis  frugi  et  luxurioso  (Omnium  quidem  de 
scripturis  quaestionum  absolutio)  [BHM  335,  CPPM  2.884]: 
Epistolae  et  tractatus 

ps.-:  De  essentia  trinitatis  (Omnipotens  deus pater  etfilius  et 
spiritus  sanctus  unus  atque  trinus)  [BHM  314,  CPPM  2.863: 
extracts  from  Eucharius,  Formulae  spiritalis  intelligentiae]: 
Epistolae  et  tractatus  -  as  De  essentia  divinitatis,  with 
Thomas  Aquinas,  De  articulis  fidei:  II  95.3  (H-179) 
ps.-:  De  homine  poentitente  (Obiurgatio  in  eum  qui  se  dicit 
poenitentem)  (Ad  te  surgo  hominem  quern  scio  esse  fidelem) 
[BHM  333,  CPPM  2.882:  Pelagian]:  Epistolae  et  tractatus 
ps.-:  De  honorandis  parentibus  (Parentum  mentis  subiugans) 
[BHM  311,  CPPM  2.860]:  Epistolae  et  tractatus 
ps.-:  De  lapsu  virginis  (Obiurgatio  acerrima  in  Susannam) 
(Quid  faces  o  anima  Susannae?)  [BHM  320,  CPPM  2.869]: 
Epistolae  et  tractatus 

ps.-:  De  locis  et  nominibus  hebraicorum  quaestionum 
(Cum  in principiis  librorum]  [Liber  Hebraicarum  quaestion 
um  in  Genesim,  Praefato]:  Epistolae  et  tractatus 
ps.-:  De  nativitate  domini  (Hodie  verus  sol)  [BHM  325, 
CPPM  2.874]:  Epistolae  et  tractatus 

ps.-:  De  nativitate  sanctae  Mariae  (Petistis  a  me)  [BHM  350, 
CPPM  2.899;  cf.  CPL  633  ep.  50  re  doubts  on  attribution 
to  Paschasius  Radbertus]:  Epistolae  et  tractatus 
ps.-:  De  observatione  vigiliarum  (Dignum  estfratres 
aptumque prorsus)  [BHM  331,  CPPM  2.880,  CPL  648: 
Nicetas  Remesianensis] :  Epistolae  et  tractatus 
ps.-:  De  perfecto  homine  (Ecce  iterum)  [BHM  306,  CPPM 
2.855,  CPL  566a:  Eutropius]:  Epistolae  et  tractatus 


ps.-:  De  resurrectione  domini  [BHM  324,  CPPM  2.873]: 

Epistolae  et  tractatus 

ps.-:  De  tribus  virtutibus  fortitudine  sapientia  et  prudentia 

(Tres  quodammodo  virtutes)  [BHM  308,  CPPM  2.857: 

Origenes,  Homilia  (5)  in  Hieremiam]:  Epistolae  et  tractatus 

ps.-:  De  vera  circumcisione,  ad  Terentiam  (Superiori  epistola 

quam  ex  me)  [BHM  319,  CPPM  2.868,  CPL  566: 

Eutropius] :  Epistolae  et  tractatus 

ps.-:  De  virtute  psalmorum  (Quia  me  dulcissimae filiae) 

[BHM  351,  CPPM  2.900]:  Epistolae  et  tractatus 

ps.-:  Decem  tentationes  populi  Israel  in  deserto  (Haec  sunt 

verba  quibus  corripuit  Moyses  filios  Israel)  [BHM  409,  CPPM 

2.2346]:  Epistolae  et  tractatus 

ps.-:  Dialogus  sub  nomine  Hieronymi  et  Augustini  de  orig- 

ine  animarum  (Cum  apud  vos  caelestis  eloquentia)  [BHM 

337,  CPPM  2.886:  N.  Italian,  c.430-50]:  in  Hieronymus, 

Epistolae  et  tractatus 

ps.-:  Epistola  [ad  Augustinum]  (Cum  in  urbe  leges  anteriori 

tempore)  [BHM  352,  CPPM  2.901]:  Epistolae  et  tractatus 

ps.-:  Epistola  ad  amicum  aegrotum  (Quanquam  noverim  cer- 

tissime  experientiam  tuam)  [BHM  305,  CPPM  2.854:  Gaul, 

c.500?]:  Epistolae  et  tractatus 

ps.-:  Epistola  ad  Ctesiphontem  de  oboedientia 

(Praesumptionem  meam)  [BHM  307,  CPPM  2.856:  Rome? 

5th  cent.?]:  Epistolae  et  tractatus 

ps.-:  Epistola  ad  Damasum  de  oblationibus  altaris  (Noverit 

sancta  auctoritas)  [BHM  343,  CPPM  2.892:  5th-6th  cent.]: 

Epistolae  et  tractatus 

ps.-:  Epistola  ad  Demetriadem  (Si  summo  ingenio  parique 

frequentus)  [BHM  301,  CPPM  2.850,  CPL  737:  Pelagius]: 

Epistolae  et  tractatus 

ps.-:  Epistola  ad  Desiderium  de  XII  doctoribus  (Vis  nunc 

acriter)  [BHM  357,  CPPM  2.906:  Hibernian,  8th  cent.]: 

Epistolae  et  tractatus 

ps.-:  Epistola  ad  Eustochium  de  vinculis  Petri  (Saepissimo 

rogatu  o  virgo)  [BHM  330,  CPPM  2.879:  12th  cent.]: 

Epistolae  et  tractatus 

ps.-:  Epistola  ad  Evagrium  de  levita  lapso  (Nisi  vererer  beatis- 

simefrater)  [BHM  358,  CPPM  2.907=836,  CPL  569: 

Bachiarius] :  Epistolae  et  tractatus 

ps.-:  Epistola  ad  Marcellam  de  sufferentia  temptationum 

(Magnam  humilitati  nostrae  fiduciam  scribendf)  [BHM  303, 

CPPM  2.852,  CPL  738:  Pelagius]:  Epistolae  et  tractatus 

ps.-:  Epistola  ad  militem  saeculi  (Etsi  ignotus  tibi  sim  facie) 

[BHM  359,  CPPM  2.908,  CPL  202  ep.:  Paulinus  Nolanus]: 

Epistolae  et  tractatus 

ps.-:  Epistola  ad  Oceanum  de  ferendis  opprobriis 

(Diversorum  opprobrii  tribulationes  multiplies)  [BHM  341, 

CPPM  2.890:  Pelagian]:  Epistolae  et  tractatus 

ps.-:  Epistola  ad  Oceanum  de  vita  clericorum  (Deprecatus  es 

uttibi  breviter  exponerem)  [BHM  342,  CPPM  2.891: 

Pelagian?] 

ps.-:  Epistola  ad  Pammachium  et  Oceanum  de  renuntia- 

tione  saeculi  (Qui  aethiopem  invitat  ad  balnea)  [BHM  332, 

CPPM  2.881:  Pelagian]:  Epistolae  et  tractatus 

ps.-:  Epistola  ad  Paulam  et  Eustochium  de  assumptione 

Mariae  virginis  (Cogitis  me  o  Paula)  [BHM  309,  CPPM 

2.858:  Paschasius  Radbertus]:  Epistolae  et  tractatus 

ps.-:  Epistola  ad  Rusticum  de  VII  ordinibus  ecclesiae 


262 


(Sufficere  quidem  arbitrorfidei  tuae)  [BHM  312,  CPPM 
2.861:  related  to  Isidorus  Hispalensis,  De  ecclesiasticis  offici- 
is] :  Epistolae  et  tractatus 

ps.-:  Epistola  ad  Tullianum  (Sancti  corruunt  si  fuerint  negli- 
gentes)  [BHM  990,  cited  from  2  Vatican  Mss.]:  Epistolae  et 
tractatus 

ps.-:  Epistola  ad  Tyrasium  super  morte  filiae  suae  (Caritatis 
tuae  scripta  percept)  [BHM  340,  CPPM  2.889]:  Epistolae  et 
tractatus 

ps.-:  Epistola  ad  virginem  in  exilium  (Si  deus  ac  dominus  nos- 
ter  iesus  christus  securitatem  pacem)  [BHM  304,  CPPM 
2.853,  CPL  739:  Pelagius]:  Epistolae  et  tractatus 
ps.-:  Epistola  de  testamento  Geruntii  (Cuncti  mei  sensus) 
[BHM  302,  CPPM  2.851,  CPL  565:  Eutropius]:  Epistolae  et 
tractatus 

ps.-:  Epistola  Valerii  ad  Rufinum  de  ducat  uxorem  (Loqui 
prohibeor  et  tacere  non  possum)  [BHM  336,  CPPM  2.885: 
Walter  Map] :  Epistolae  et  tractatus 
ps.-:  Explanatio  fidei  ad  Damasum  (Credimus  in  deum 
patrem  omnipotentem  cunctorum  uisibilium  et  inuisibilium 
conditorem)  [BHM  316,  CPPM  2.865,  CPL  731:  Pelagius]: 
Epistolae  et  tractatus 

ps.-:  Expositio  fidei  ad  Cyrillum  (Credimus  in  unum  deum 
patrem  omnipotentem  omnium  uisibilium  et  in  uisibilium  cre- 
atorem)  [BHM  317,  CPPM  2.866:  early  5th  cent.]:  Epistolae 
et  tractatus 

ps.-:  Expositio  in  symbolum  apostolorum  (Mihi  quidem 
fidelissime  papa  Laurenti  ad  scribendum  animus  tarn  non  est 
cupidus)  [CPL  196;  BHM  514,  CPPM  2.840:  Rufinus.  In 
GoffR-351  the  title  is  given  as  Exposicio  symboli  gloriosi 
leronimi  contra  louinianum  hereticum,  and  the  text  begins 
in  ch.  3:  Credo  in  deo patre  omnipotente.  Verum priusquam 
incipiam}:  Epistolae  et  tractatus-  II  58  (R-351)  - 
ps.-:  Homelia  super  evangelium  Matthaei  (Sanctus  evange- 
lista  docet  nos)  [BHM  339,  CPPM  2.888]:  Epistolae  et  tracta 
tus 

ps.-:  In  iuvenem  sceleris  perpetratorem  (De  te  autem  quid 
dicam  fili  serpentis)  [Ambrosius,  De  lapsu  virginis  conse- 
cratae,  ch.  9,  extract]:  Epistolae  et  tractatus 
ps.-:  Praefationes  in  Martyrologium  Hieronymianum  (ps.- 
Chromatius  to  Jerome,  and  reply)  [BHM  640,  CPPM 
2.518-20:  Gallican,  6th-7th  cent.]:  Epistolae  et  tractatus 
ps.-:  Prologus  in  librurn  de  infantia  salvatoris  (Qui  terram 
aurt)  [BHM  349,  CPPM  2.898]:  Epistolae  et  tractatus 
ps.-:  Regula  vivendi  sanctimonialium  (Prol.:  Tepescens  in 
membris]  [BHM  560,  CPPM  2.3663]:  Epistolae  et  tractatus 
ps.-:  Rescriptum  ad  Damasum  papam  (Legi  litteras  apostola- 
tus  vestri),  with  preceding  ps.-Damasus,  ad  Hieronymum  ut 
Graecorum  Psallentiam  sibi  mittat  (Dum  multa  corpora 
librorum)  [BHM  346-7,  CPPM  2.895-6:  Rome,  6th  cent.?]: 
Epistolae  et  tractatus 

ps.-:  Responsio  ad  Chromatium  et  Heliodorum  (Dominis 
sanctis  . . .  Qui  terram  aurt);  with  ps.-Chromatius,  Epistola  ad 
Hieronymum  de  ortu  beatae  Mariae  virginis  ( Ortum 
Mariae  reginae)  [BHM  348-9,  CPPM  2.897-8  =  515-6]: 
Epistolae  et  tractatus 

ps.-:  Sermo  de  nativitate  beatae  Mariae  (de  assumptione  . . .) 
(Sdentesfratresdilectissimi)  [BHM  310,  CPPM  2.859:  7th 
cent.] :  Epistolae  et  tractatus 


ps.-:  Tractatus  fidei,  credulitatis  et  conversationis  vitae 

Christianae  (Dauid gloriosus  in  psalmo  sic  dicif)  [BHM  515, 

CPPM  2.830:  Spain?  4th  cent.]:  Epistolae  et  tractatus 

tr.:  Eusebius  Caesariensis,  Chronicon.  —  De  situ  et 

nominibus  locorum  Hebraicorum.  —  Origenes,  Homilae  II 

in  Cantica  canticorum 

see  also  Biblia  Latina;  Lupus  de  Olmeto 

Historia  septem  sapientum  Romae  (German)  (Ein  gar  schone 
Cronick  unnd  hystorie  ausz  den  geschichten  der  Romern) 
[15th-cent.  prose  version;  VL  8.1 174]:  I  13  (HC  8729) 

Hoest,  Stephan,  c.  1430-1472,  theology  professor  at  Heidelberg 
University  [VL  4.79;  Frank  Baron,  'Der  erste  Druck  einer 
SchriftAugustms\HistorischesJahrbuch9l  (1971)  108-18]: 
editor  of  Augustinus,  De  arte  praedicandi 

HOMER,  fl.  c.700  BC?  [OCD,  718;  NeuePauly  5.686] 

Opera  (Greek:  1.  7/zW[TLGC  12.1].  —  2.  Odyssey  [12.2]. 
—  3.  Batrachomyomachia  [TLGC  1220.1]);  ed.  by 
Demetrius  Chalcondylas  with  a  preface,  with  lives  of  Homer 
by  pseudo-Herodotus,  pseudo-Plutarch,  and  Dio 
Chrysostom:  I  16  (H-300:  prelims);  II  60  (H-300) 

HONORIUS  Augustodunensis,  c.  1080-1 137,  fl.  Regensburg,  per 
haps  of  Irish  origin  [Sharpe,  179;  VL  4.122] 
De  cognitione  verae  vitae:  see  ps. -Augustinus 
De  imagine  mundi:  see  ps.-Anselmus 
Elucidarium  [Dagmar  Gottschall,  Das  Elucidarium  des 
Honorius  Augustodunensis  (Tubingen  1992)]:  see  Lucidarius 
(German) 

HORATIUS  Flaccus,  Quintus,  65-8  BC  [OCD,  724]:  see  Cicero,  De 
officiis 

HOUPPELANDE,  Guillermus,  mag.,  fl.  1490s,  Paris 

De  immortalitate  animae  (Antiques  philosophos  floruisse  ac 
studio  profecisse):  II  59  (H-495) 

HUGO  de  Balma,  fl.  1289-1304,  OCarth.  [Diet.  spir.  7.859;  VL 
4.225] 

Theologia  mystica  /  Viae  Sion  lugent  [ed.  Francis  Ruello,  2 
v.,  Paris,  1995:  Sources  chretiennes  408-9]:  see  Bonaventura, 
De  triplici  via 

HUGO  (Ripelin)  Argentinensis,  C.1210-C.1270,  OP  [VL  4.252; 
Kaeppeli  2.251]:  see  ps.-Albertus  Magnus,  Compendium 
theologicae  veritatis 

HVGINUS  (C.  Julius  H.),  fl.  c.  28  BC  and  after,  Augustan  freedman, 
prefect  of  the  Palatine  library,  Rome,  author  also  of  a  mytho- 
graphic  handbook  Ge nealogiae  I Fabulae  [OCD,  735;  Neue 
Pauly  5.778.  OCD  doubts  the  identification,  accepted  by  the 
editor  of  the  Teubner  edition,  Ghislaine  Vire  (Hygini  De 
astronomia,  1992),  suggesting  the  Poeticon  astronomicon 
belongs  to  the  2nd  cent.  AD,  its  author  being  essentially 
unidentifiable  as  an  historical  figure] 

Poeticon  astronomicon  (ed.,  and  with  commendatory  verse 
byjac.  Sentinus  and  Job.  Luc.  Santritter):  II  61  (H-560),  62 
(H-561),  63  (H-562) 

lAMBLICHUS,  c.240-c.325,  of  Chalcis  (Syria),  pupil  of  Pirphyry 
[OCD,  743;  Neue  Paufy5.848] 
De  mysteriis  Aegyptiorum  ...  [A  compilation  of  Marsilius 


263 


Ficinus's  translations,  many  excerpted,  of  classical  and 
Byzantine  Platonic  texts;  including  Ficinus's  earlier  dedica 
tions  of  individual  texts  to  Card.  Giovanni  de'  Medici, 
Lorenzo  and  Piero  de'  Medici,  Philippus  Valor,  and  Giovanni 
Cavalca.  In  contents,  infra,  roman  numbers  refer  to  the 
items  in  Paul  O.  Kristeller,  Supplementum  Ficinianum 
(1937),  pt.  Ill:  Index  operum]:  II  64  (J-216) 
lamblichus,  De  mysteriis  Aegyptiorum,  Chaldaeorum, 
Assyriorum  (XVIII;  TLGC  2023.6) 

Proclus,  In  Platonis  Alcibiadem  (XIX;  TLGC  4036.7)  -  De 
sacrificio  et  magia  (XIX;  TLGC  4036.18) 
Porphyrius,  De  occasionibus  (XX)  -  De  abstinentia  (XX; 
TLGC  2034.3)  [BSB-Ink.  1-127  as  De  divinis  et  dae- 
monibus,  viz.  Epistola  ad  Anebonem,  TLGC  2034.13] 
Synesius,  De  insomniis  (XXV;  TLGC  2006.5) 
Michael  Psellus,  De  daemonibus  (XXI) 
Priscianus  Lydus,  In  Theophrastum  De  sensu  (XV,  with 
interpolations  by  Ficinus;  TLGC  4014.1) 
Alcinous,  De  doctrina  Platonis  (XXII;  TLGC  693 
[Albinus].!) 

Speusippus,  De  Platonis  definitionibus  (XXIII;  TLGC 
1692.5  (Fragmenta);  cf  OCD,  1434) 
Pythagoras  (Pythagorica),  Aurea  verba  -  Symbola  (XXVI; 
TLGC  632.1) 

ps.-Xenocrates,  De  morte  (XXIV;  TLGC,  322:  59.38,  i.e. 
ps.-Plato,  Axiochus) 
Marsilius  Ficinus,  De  Voluptate  (7457;  IX) 

Ilicinus,  Bernardus:  see  Lapini,  Bernardus 

INSTITORIS,  Henricus,  c.  1430-1 505,  OP  [VL  4.1408],  jointly 
with  Jac.  Sprenger 

Malleus  maleficamm  (Apologia:  Cum  inter  mentis  saeculi 
calamitates  —  Text:  Super  bullam  ergo  Innocentii  octavi  adver- 
sus  haeresim  [Kaeppeli  2127  (sub  Sprenger)]):  I  17 

ISIDORUS  Hispalensis,  c.  560-636,  Bp.  of  Seville  599/600  [CPL, 
398;  OCD,  768;  Neue  Pauly  5. 1 1 22] 
Etymologiae  [CPL  1186]:  II  65  (1-181) 

JACOBUS  de  Voragine,  c.1228/9-1298,  OP,  Arbp.  of  Genoa  1292 
[Kaeppeli  1.348;  VL  4.448;  Legenda  aurea,  ed.  Giovanni 
Paolo  Maggioni,  2  v.,  Tavarnuzze,  1998] 
Legenda  aurea  (with  27  supplementary  lives  added  at  the 
end,  and  indicated  as  Additiones';  their  order  suggests  that 
the  edition  derives  ultimately  from  that  of  Anton  Koberger, 
Nuremberg,  1 1  Aug.  1478  [GoffJ-90]):  II  66  0-120) 
see  also  Heiligen  Leben 

Jehudah  ben  Moshe  ha-Cohen,  fl.  1231-1257  at  the  court  of 
Alfonso  X  of  Spain,  translator  of  Haly,  De  iudiciis  astrorum 
from  Arabic  into  Old  Castilian,  from  which  it  was  translated 
into  Latin  [ed.  Gerold  Hilty,  El  libra  libra  conplido  en  los 
iudizios  de  las  estrellas  (Madrid,  1954),  see  xxxviii  sq.  on 
Jehudah,  and  also  Munoz  Sendino,  85  sq.] 

JOHANNES  Chrysostomus,  Saint,  c.349/54-407,  Patriarch  of 

Constantinople  from  397/8  [OCD,  329;  Neue  Paufy5.\Q59; 
Diet.  spir.  8.331;  Altaner,  322] 

De  providentia  Dei,  Lat.  (noviter  translatutus  est  de  greco  in 
latinum:  Oportuerat  quidem  o  mihi  amantissime  omnium 
Stagiri)  -  De  dignitate  humanae  originis  (Dignitate 


humanae  originis  facile  agnoscitur)  [colophon  identifies  trans 
lator  as  Ambrosius,  abbot  general  of  the  Camaldolese  order, 
i.e.  Ambr.  Traversarius] :  II  72  (J-293) 
ps.-:  Expositio  super  Matthaeum  /  Opus  imperfectum  in 
Matthaeum,  Lat.  (Sicut  referunt,  Matheum  conscribere  evan- 
gelium)  [Diet.  spir.  8.362:  A  5th-6th  cent.  Latin  text,  of 
Arianist  origin]:  II  71.1  0-289) 

ps.-:  Sermones  de  patientia  in  lob,  Lat.  (Annuus  ad  nos 
hodierna  die  certator  orbis),  ed.  and  trans.  Lilius  Tifernas, 
with  his  dedication  to  Pope  Nicholas  V:  I  19  (J-304) 

JOHANNES  de  Capua,  fl.  1263-1278,  Jewish  convert,  translator 
from  Hebrew  to  Latin  of  the  Sanskrit  fable  collection 
Panchatranta  (as  transmitted  to  the  Latin  West  via  Persian  to 
Arabic  to  Hebrew),  under  title  Directorium  vitae  humanae 
[VL  1 .402,  s.v.  Antonius  von  Pforr] 

Directorium  vitae  humanae  [ed.  F.  Geissler,  Berlin,  I960]; 
with  Johannes's  dedication  to  Card.  Matthaeus  Rubeus 
Ursinus:  I  7  0-268) 

Johannes  de  Lapide:  see  Heynlin,  Johannes 

JOHANNES  deTambaco  /  Dambach,  1288-1372,  OP  Strassburg 
[Diet.  spir.  8.466,  Kaeppeli  2.400;  VL  4.571] 
Consolatio  theologiae  [1366:  Kaeppeli  2256.  Goff  J-436  is 
the  frill  text,  J-437  an  abridgment]:  II  68  0-436),  70.1  (J- 
437),  69  0-437) 

JOHANNES  Marchesinus,  fl.  c.  1300,  OFM  in  custodia  of  Ferrara, 
au.of  Mammotrectus  [Wadding-Sbaralea  1.166,  3/204;  cf. 
Stegmuller,  Rep.  bibl.  4776-7] 
Centilioquium:  see  ps.-Bonaventura 

Johannes  Philoponus  [c.490-c.570/5,  Alexandria:  OCD,  1 168; 
Neue  Pauly  9. 860],  pseudo-:  see  Aristoteles,  Opera  (Gr.) 

Kalender  (German)  [Peter  Amelung,  ed.  and  comm.:  Das  ist  der 
teutsche  kalender  mit  denfiguren  gedruckt  zu  Ulm  imjahre 
1498  von  Johannes  Schaffler(Dietikon-Zuric\i,  1978)]:  I  20 
(H  9745) 

KEMPIS,  Thomas  (Hemmerken)  a,  c.1379/80-1471,  OSA  [VL 
9.862;  Opera,  ed.  Jos.  Pohl,  7  v.,  Freiburg  1902-22] 
Opera  et  libri  vitae,  ed.  Georg  Pirckamer,  with  commendato 
ry  letter  by  the  dedicatee  Pet.  Danhauser  (1 .  I  mi  tat  io 
Christi.  —  2.  Jean  Gerson,  De  meditatione  cordis.  —  3. 
Liber  vitae  magistri  Gerhardi  Magni  vulgariter  Gross.  —  4. 
Liber  de  hu militate  Christi  (quam  dominus  Florentius 
studuit  imitari).  —  5.  Liber  de  discipulis  domini  Florentii. 

—  6.  Soliloquiurn  animae.  —  7.  De  disciplina  claustralium. 

—  8.  Aliqua  notabilia  de  conversatione  Thomae  de 
Kempis.  —  9.  Alphabetum  —  10.  Sermones  ad  novitios.  — 
1 1.  (De  tribus  tabernaculis:)  Libellus  de  paupertate,  humili- 
tate  et  patientia.  —  12.  De  vera  compunctione  (cordis).  — 
13.  Hortulus  rosarum.  —  14.  Vallis  liliorum.  —  15. 
Alphabetum  monachi.  —  16.  Consolatio  pauperum  et 
infirmorum.  17.  Epitaphium  monachorum.  —  18. 
Sermones  devoti.  —  19.  Dialogus  novitiorum.  —  20. 
Canticum  de  laudibus  sanctarum  virginum  (et  alia).  —  21. 
Epistolae  V.  —  22.  Manuale  monachorum.  —  23. 
Doctrinale  iuvenum.  —  24.  Hospitale  pauperum):  I  34  (T- 
352) 


264 


Imitatio  Christi:  II  95.1  (1-4)  —  (German,  anon.):  II  96  (I- 
40)  —  in  Opera 

Meditationes  de  vita  et  beneficiis  Jesu  Christi,  sive 
Gratiarum  actiones  (Si  desideras perfecte  mundari  a  vitiis) 
[authenticity  unclear,  anonymous  here]:  I  6.2  (M-432) 

LACTANTIUS  (Lactantius  Caelius  Firmianus),  fl.  c.250-325,  of 
Nicomedia  [GPL,  24;  OCD,  811;  Neue  Paufy6.lQ43; 
Altaner,  185] 

Opera  (1 .  De  divinis  institutionibus  [CPL  85]  —  2.  De  ira 
dei  [CPL  88]  —  3.  De  opificio  dei  vel  de  formatione 
hominis  [CPL  87]  —  4.  De  phoenice  carmen  [CPL  90]  - 
5.  Epitome  divinarum  institutionum  (chs.  56-73)  [CPL 
85];  with  Venantius  Fortunatus,  [Carmen]  De  resurrectione 
Christi  [Saluefesta  dies  to  to  uenerabilis  euo  I  Qua  deus  infer- 
num  uicit.  et  astra  tenet]):  I  21  (L-9) 

Langen,  Rudolf  von  /  Rudolphus  Langius,  c.  1438-1 5 19,  human 
ist,  canon  of  Miinster  cathedral  [Cant.  Eras.  2.290;  VL 
5.590;  Reichhart,  79]:  Commendatory  verse  in  Joh. 
Tritheim,  De  laudibus  S.  Annae 

Lapide,  Johannes  de:  see  Heynlin,  Johann 

Lapini,  Bernardus  (Bernardus  Ilicinus,  of  Montalcino),  1435- 
1476,  Siena,  physician  and  humanist  [C.  Corso,  'L'llicino 
(Bernardo  Lapini)',  Bullettino  senese  di storia patria  64  (1957) 
3-108;  Valerie  Merry,  'Una  nota  sulla  fortuna  del  commento 
di  Bernardo  Ilicino  ai  Trionfi  petrarcheschi',  Giornale  storico 
della  letteratura  italiana,  163  (1986)  235-46;  Reichhart,  67]: 
comm.:  Petrarca 

LEONARDOS  de  Utino,  c.  1400-1469,  of  Udine,  OP,  prior  1456 
[Kaeppeli  3.80] 
Sermones  de  sanctis  [1446;  Kaeppeli  2874]:  II  73  (L-164) 

Leonicenus,  Omnibonus  (Ognibene  Bonisoli  da  Lonigo),  c.  1412- 
1474,  taught  in  Vicenza,  Treviso,  Mantua;  editor  also  of 
Jensen's  1471  Quintilian  (Goff  Q-26)  in  which  he  praised 
Jenson  as  librariae  artis  mirabilis  inventor,  etc.  [DBI  12.234; 
Reichhart,  111]:  ed.,  ps. -Cicero,  Rhetorica  ad  C.  Herennium 

Leontorius,  Conradus,  OSB,  Maulbronn,  late  15th  cent.,  member 
of  the  Sodalitas  litteraria  Rhenana  [Rupprich,  524; 
Reichhart,  83]:  commendatory  material  in  Pet.  Schott 

LlCHTENBERGER,  Johannes,  c.  1440-1 503,  court  astrologer  to 
Emp.  Friedrich  III,  c.1476;  priest  in  Brambach  1481  [VL 
5.770] 

Prognosticatio  latina  (Prol.:  Quanquam  solus  deus  in  sua 
potestate):  II  74  (L-205) 

Lignamine,  Johannes  Philippus  de,  printer  in  Rome,  c.  1470-84: 
dedicatory  letter  to  Card.  d'Estouteville  in  Eusebius,  Historia 
ecclesiastica 

Lobkowitz  von  Hassenstein,  Bohuslaw,  1462-1510,  I.U.D. 

Bologna,  Bohemian  statesman  and  humanist  [NDB  14.730]: 
commendatory  material  in  Pet.  Schott 


Lucidarius  (German)  (Ein  liebliche  hystory  von  dem  hochgelerten 
meister  lucidarius,  incip.:  (Meister:)  Dis  buck  heysset 
Lucidarius  das  spricht  zu  teutsch  also  vil  alsz  ein  erleuchter) 
[VL  5.939;  based  on  Honorius  Augustodunensis, 
Elucidarium,  q.v.]:  I  22  (CR  3041) 

LUDOLPHUS  de  Saxonia,  c.  1300- 1377,  OP  then  (1340)  OCarth, 
Strassburg,  Koblenz,  Mainz  [Diet.  spir.  9.1 130;  VL  5.967] 
Compendiosum  scriptum  Psalterii  intentionem  declarans 

(Anon.;  Sicut  olim  manna  habuit  delectamentum)  [cf. 
Stegmiiller  5428  (5429,  5430),  Sack  2280:  entered  under 
Walafridus  Strabo  in  incunable  catalogues  from  Proctor 
onward,  treated  as  anonymous  by  BSB-Ink.  S-237.  Sack 
treats  as  an  abridgment  of  Ludolphus's  full  Expositio 
psalterii,  first  printed  [Speyer:  Peter  Drach,  1491],  Goff  L- 
336.  The  relations  of  the  latter  with  other  Psalm  commen 
taries  attributed  to  Alanus  (de  Insulis?)  and  Jordanus  de 
Quedlinburg  are  discussed  by  Walter  Baier,  Untersuchungen 
zu  den  Passionsbetrachtungen  in  der  Vita  Christi  des  Ludolfvon 
Sachsen,  1.86  sqq.  (3  v.,  1977:  Analecta  Cartusiana,  44)]:  II 
105  (W-l) 

Lupus  de  Olmeto:  see  Olmeto 

Macerata,  Franciscus  de,  fl.  1495,  Venice;  B.Th.,  OFM 
[Reichhart,  86] :  ed.  Avicenna 

Manutius,  Aldus,  1452?-1515,  scholar-printer  in  Venice  [Cont. 
Eras.  2.376;  Martin  Davies,  Aldus  Manutius  (London, 
1995)]:  dedicator  of  Aristophanes  (to  Daniel  Clarius,  13  July 
1498:  Orlandi  XIV)  —  of  Aristoteles  (5  to  Alberto  Pio, 
prince  of  Carpi,  Orlandi  III,  VIII.VII,  IX,  XIII) 

Marchesinus:  see  Johannes  Marchesinus 

Margarita  davitica  seu  Expositio  psalmorum  (Prol.:  In  nomine 
sanctissimae  et  individuae  trinitatis  et  Ihesu  Christi  humani- 
tatis  . . .  Liber  maragarita,  Davitica  nuncupatus  . . .  regalem 
exponens  prophetam  David . . .  feliciter  incipit —  Tituli 
psalmorum:  Prophetia  est  inspiratio  divina  quae  eventus  rerum 
immobili  veritate  . . .  Comm.  to  ps.  1 ,  Beatus  vir:  Innutuis  ab 
omni  male):  II  75  (M-262) 

MARTIANUS  Capella,  fl.  later  5th  cent.,  ?Carthage  [OCD,  932; 
NeuePaufy  7.961] 

De  nuptiis  Philologiae  et  Mercurii  (ed.  Franciscus  Vitalis 
Bodianus,  with  his  dedication  to  Johannes  Chieregatus,  Bp. 
of  Cattaro,  Vicenza,  3  Oct.  [1499?]):  II  76  (C-l  17) 

Martinis,  Octavianus  de,  fl.  Rome,  late  15th  cent.,  I.U.D.,  advo- 
catus  consistorialis  sacri  palatii:  see  Bonaventura,  Tractatus  et 
libri 

Martyr,  Peter:  see  Anghiera 

Martyrologium  (Viola  sanctorum:  Si  cuncta  corporis  mei  membra 
verterentur  in  linguas,  et  omnes  artus)  [A  brief  digest  listing  a 
major  saint  or  occasionally  several  saints  for  each  day  of  the 
year,  with  printed  shoulder  notes  in  form  'Ci  A  j',  'si  b  ij', 
etc.,  keying  these  to,  respectively,  the  syllabic  Cisiojanus,  the 
days  of  the  week  (a-g),  and  the  days  of  the  year]:  I  23  (M- 
339) 


265 


METHODIUS  (pseudo-),  'St.  Methodius,  episcopus  Pararensis',  i.e. 
St.  Methodius,  said  to  have  been  Bp.  of  Olympus,  martyred 
in  the  Diocletianic  persecutions  (Hieronymus,  De  viris  illus- 
tribus)  c.  31 1  [OCD,  969;  Neue  Pauly  8.96] 
Revelationes  (De  regnis  gentium  et  novissimis  temporibus 
certa  demonstratio  Christiana:  Sciendum  namque  est  quod 
exeuntes  Adam  quidem  et  Eva)  [a  Syrian-Christian  apocalypse, 
later  7th  cent.,  with  early  translations  into  Greek  (TGLC, 
270:  2959.14-17)  and  Latin  (E.  Sackur,  ed.,  Sibyllinische 
Texte  und Forschungen  [1898]  59-96]:  in  ps.-Bonaventura, 
De  triplici  via 

Mosnauer,  Wolfgang,  fl.  1 500,  liberalium  disciplinarum  magister 
[cf.  Reichhart,  14]:  ed.,  Aristoteles,  De  anima 

Musurus,  Marcus,  c.  1470-1 5 17,  of  Crete  [Cont.  Eras.  2.472; 
DAGL,  586  (s.v.  Mousouros);  Reichhart,  106]:  ed. 
Aristophanes 

Nebrija,  Antonio  de:  see  Antonius  Nebrissensis 

Nerlius,  Bernardus,  Florentine  noble,  student  of  Demetrius 

Chalcondylas,  professor  of  civil  law  at  Pisa,  1492  [R.  Ridolfi, 
La  stampa  in  Firenze  nel secolo  XV(F\orence  1958),  96  n.  1]: 
publisher  and  dedicator  of  Homer  (to  Piero  de  Medici,  13 
January  [idib.  Ian.]  1488) 

NlCETAS  Remesianensis,  fl.  late  4th/early  5th  cent.,  Bp.  of 
Remesiana  (Bela  Palanka,  Serbia)  [CPL,  228;  Diet.  spir. 
1 1.214;  Altaner,  391] 
De  observatione  vigiliarum:  see  ps. -Hieronymus 

NlCOLAUS  de  Blony,  d.  c.1440,  M.A.  Cracow  1421,  priest;  of 
Blony  nr.  Warsaw  [Diet.  spir.  1 1.253] 
De  sacramentis:  II  77  (N-81) 

NlCOLAUS  de  Byard,  fl.  mid-13th  cent.,  OP  [Kaeppeli  3.148; 

Diet.  spir.  11.254]:  [Dictionarius  pauperum]  Flos  theologiae 
sive  Summa  de  abstinentia  [Kaeppeli  3046]:  in  Joh.  de 
Turrecremata,  Quaestiones  Evangeliorum 

NlDER,  Johann,  c.  1380- 1438,  OP,  of  Isny,  prior  in  Basel,  profes 
sor  in  Vienna  [VL  6.971;  Kaeppeli  2.500;  Diet.  spir.  1 1.322] 
Dispositorium  artis  moriendi  [Kaeppeli  2536]:  II  95.9  (A- 
1089) 

Formicarius  [Kaeppeli  2537]:  I  24  (N-176) 
Sermones  de  tempore  et  de  sanctis  cum  quadragesimal! 
[Kaeppeli  2548]:  I  25  (N-216),  26  (N-217),  27  (N-219) 

OLMETO,  Lupus  de,  1370-1433,  of  Valladolid,  OHier  and 

reformer  of  his  order,  friend  of  and  patronized  by  Martin  V 

(pope  1417-31)  [Diet.  spir.  11.786] 

Regula  monachorum  ex  variis  epistolis  Hieronymi  excerpta 

(with  prefatory  Bulla  of  Martin  V):  in  Hieronymus,  Epistolae 
et  tractatus 


OaiGENES  Adamantius,  C.184-C.254,  of  Alexandria  [OCD,  1076; 
Altaner,  197] 

Cornrnentaria  in  Cantica  canticorum  (tr.  Rufinus)  [PG 
13.61]:  in  Hieronymus,  Epistolae  et  tractatus 
Homilia  5  in  Hieremiam:  see  ps. -Hieronymus,  De  tribus 
virtutibus 

Homiliae  II  in  Cantica  canticorum  (tr.  Hieronymus,  with 
prologue  to  Pope  Damasus  [Origenes  cum  in  ceteris  libris}) 
[BHM  206]):  in  Hieronymus,  Epistolae  et  tractatus 
Super  epistola  Pauli  ad  Romanes  (tr.  Hieronymus):  in 
Hieronymus,  Epistolae  et  tractatus 

OVIDIUS  Naso,  Publius,  43BC-AD17,  Rome,  and  exiled  toTomis 
(Constantsa,  Black  Sea)  [OCD,  1084;  Neue  Pauly  9. 1 1 0] 
Opera,  ed.  Johannes  Calphurnius,  with  his  commendatory 
verse  (Perlege Nasonis divina  poemata  lector  \  ...)  and  with 
[Franciscus  Puteolanus],  Vita  Ovidii  [Metamorphoses  - 
Heroides  -  Ars  amandi  -  Amores  -  De  remedio  amoris  - 
De  medicamine  faciei  -  (ps.-?):  De  nuce  [cf.  Neue  Pauly 
8.1067]  -  Fasti  -  (ps.-:)  Epistola  consolatoria  ad  Liviam  de 
morte  Drusi  [9  BC;  cf.  Neue  Pauly  3.133]  -  Tristia  - 
Epistolae  ex  Ponto  -  (ps.-:)  De  pulice  -  (ps.-:)  De 
Philomena-Ibis]:  II  78  (O-128) 

PALMERIUS,  Matthaeus,  Florentinus;  humanist,  d.1475  [cf.  Eric 
Cochrane,  Historians  and  Historiography  in  the  Italian 
Renaissance  (Chicago,  1981),  24]:  Annals  448-1448:  in 
Eusebius  Caesariensis,  Chronicon 

PALMERIUS,  Matthias,  Pisanus;  1423-1483;  pupil  of  Matthaeus 
Palmerius,  humanist,  papal  secretary:  Annals  1449-1483 
(including  a  reference  to  Gutenberg's  invention  of  printing, 
entered  under  1457  but  referring  back  to  1440):  in  Eusebius 
Caesariensis,  Chronicon 

PALTZ,  Johannes  de,  c.  1445-151 1,  of  Pfalzel  nr.  Trier,  OESA, 
Erfurt  [Zumkeller,  255;  VL  4.698] 
Quaestio  determinata  contra  triplicem  errorem  de 
Antichristi  revelatione  [Aug.  i486,  Erfurt,  anonymous  as 
printed:  Zumkeller  555a:  'opus  dubium'(?)]:  II  67  (A-772) 

PASCHASIUS  Radbertus  (Radbert  of  Corbie),  c.790-c.859/60  [Diet, 
spir.  12.295] 

De  nativitate  sanctae  Mariae:  see  ps. -Hieronymus 
Epistola  ad  Paulam  et  Eustochium  de  assumptione  Mariae 
virginis:  see  ps.-Hieronymus 

PASSAU,  OTTO  VON,  fl.  1362-1386,  OFM  [VL  7.229] 

Die  vierundzwanzig  Alten,  oder  der  Goldene  Thron  der 
minnende  Seele  (Prol.:  Als  du  mynnen  sele  von  mir  begert  hast 
ein  leben  [ed.  Wieland  Schmidt,  1937]:  I  28 

PATRICIUS  Episcopus,  /  Patrick  of  Dublin,  OSB  Worcester,  Bp.  of 
Dublin  1074-84  [Sharpe,  414;  A.  O.  Gwynn,  ed.,  The 
Writings  of  Bishop  Patrick  (Dublin,  1955)].  De  triplici 
habitacula:  see  ps.-Augustinus 

Paulinus  Mediolanensis,  diaconus,  fl.  Africa,  422  [CPL,  52; 

Altaner,  379]:  Vita  S.  Ambrosii  [as  Paulinus  Nolanus;  CPL 
169,  BHL377]:  inAmbrosius,  Opuscula 


266 


PAULINUS  Nolanus,  c.353-431,  of  Bordeaux,  Bp.  of  Nola  from 
395  [OCD,  1 128;  NeuePaufy9A26;  Altaner,  409] 
Epistola  ad  militem  saeculi  (ep.  25):  see  ps.-Hieronymus 
Paulinus  et  Therasia  ad  Sebastianum  eremi  cultorem  (ep. 
26):  in  Hieronymus,  Epistolae  et  tractatus 
(ps.-):  Vita  Ambrosii:  see  Paulinus  Mediolanensis 

PELAGIUS,  fl.  c.380-418,  British  birth  [GPL,  250;  OCD,  1131; 
NeuePauly  9  A87;  Sharpe,  415] 

Libellus  fidei  ad  Innocentium  papam:  see  ps.-Hieronymus, 
Explanatio  fidei  ad  Damasum 
Epistola  ad  Demetriadem:  see  ps.-Hieronymus 
Epistola  ad  Marcellam  de  sufferentia  temptationum:  see 
ps.-Hieronymus 
Epistola  ad  virginem  in  exilium:  see  ps.-Hieronymus 

Penketh,  Thomas,  fl.  !466-d.l487;  OESA,  theology  lecturer, 
University  of  Padua,  14/4-79  [Sharpe,  674;  Francis  X. 
Roth,  The  English  Austin  Friars  (1966),  398-9,  561-4]:  part- 
editor  of  Joh.  Duns  Scotus,  Quaestiones  in  quattuor  libros 
Sententiarum 

PETRARCA,  Francesco,  1303-1374  [DAGL,  659] 

Trionfi,  Canzoniere  (ed.  Franciscus  Philelphus,  with  dedica 
tion  to  Filippo  Maria  Angelo  Visconti;  Trionfi  with  comm. 
of  Bernardo  Lapini  da  Siena  ('Bernardus  Glicinus'); 
Canzoniere  with  comm.  of  Philelphus  and  Hieronymus 
Squarzaficus):  II  79  (P-392) 

Petrus  de  Alvernia,  fl.  1275-d.l304,  canon  of  Notre-Dame,  Paris; 
Bp.  of  Clermont  1302  [Lohr  28.334;  Grabmann,  89;  Eubel. 
1.192]:  comm.  of  Aristoteles,  De  coelo 

PETRUS  Blesensis  /  Peter  of  Blois,  d.1212,  archdeacon  of  Bath  and 
London  [Sharpe,  418;  Diet.  spir.  12.1510] 
Epistolae:  II  80  (P-456) 

PETRUS  Comestor,  d.l  178,  ofTroyes,  chancellor  of  Paris  1 168 
[Diet.  spir.  12.1614] 
Historia  schokstica:  II  81  (P-463),  82  (P-466) 

PETRUS  Lombardus,  c.  1095-1 160,  of  Novara,  Bp.  of  Paris  1 159 
[LThK  3.367;  Diet.  spir.  12.1604] 
Sententiarum  libri  IV:  II  83  (P-479) 
Sententiae  (Lemmata  only):  131 

Petrus  de  Regio,  fl.  1257-1280,  imperial  protonotary  at  the  court 
of  Alfonso  X  of  Spain  [Munoz  Sendino,,  97  sq.]:  translator 
from  Castilian  to  Latin  of  Haly 

Philelphus,  Franciscus,  1398-1481,  humanist  and  Greek  scholar, 
Bologna,  Florence,  Milan  [DBI  47.613;  Reichhart,  117]:  ed. 
and  comm.:  Petrarca 

Philo  Judaeus,  c.15  BC-c.  AD  50,  Alexandria  [OCD,  1167;  Neue 
Paufy9.850],  pseudo-:  see  Aristoteles,  Opera  (Gr.) 

Philoponus:  see  Johannes  Philoponus 


PlCO  della  Mirandola,  Giovanni,  1463-1494  [DAGL,  678; 

Fernand  Roulier,  Jean  Pic  de  la  Mirandole  (Geneva,  1989)] 
Omnia  opera,  ed.  Giovanni  Francesco  Pico,  with  his  dedica 
tion  to  Lorenzo  de'Medici  and  his  Vita  of  his  uncle;  ps.- 
Cyprianus,  Carmen  de  ligno  vitae;  and  an  extensive  series  of 
commendations  and  testimonies  by  contemporaries;  fuller 
details  of  contents,  including  dedications  of  the  tracts,  given 
BSB-Ink.  P-481  (Heptaplus  -  Deprecatio  ad  deum  - 
Apologia  -  De  Ente  et  uno  -  De  dignitate  hominis  - 
Epistolae  -  Disputationes  adversus  astrologos):  II  84  (P- 
634) 

Pico  della  Mirandola,  Giovanni  di  Francesco,  1469-1533,  nephew 
of  Giov.  Pico,  q.v. 

Pirckamer,  Georg,  d.l  506,  OCarth,  prior  of  the  Nuremberg 
Charterhouse:  editor  of  Thos.  a  Kempis,  Opera;  with  his 
dedicatory  correspondence  to  and  from  Petrus  Danhausser, 
14  Feb.  1494 

Platonius,  Greek  grammarian,  9th- 10th  cent.?  [OCD,  1 193]: 
fragmentary  tracts  on  Greek  comedy  [TGLC  1615.1]:  in 
Aristophanes 

Plenarium  /  Plenari  (Epistolae  et  Evangelia,  German)  [VL  7.737; 
Paul  Pietsch,  Ewangely  und  Epistel  Teutsch:  Die  gedruckten 
hochdeutschen  Perikopenbiicher  (Plenarien)  1473-1523 
(Gottingen,  1927)]:  II  86  (E-73),  85  (E-74) 

Plutarch  (pseudo),  Vita  Homeri  [TLGC  1805.2]:  in  Homer 

Podocarthus,  Ludovicus,  d.  1504,  of  Cyprus  and  Venice,  secretary 
of  Rodrigo  Borgia  (Pope  Alexander  VI),  Bp.  of  Capaccio 
1483-1503,  Cardinal  (titulus  S.  Agathae)  1500,  Arbp.  of 
Benevento  1503  [Eubel  2.25,  117,  132;  Reichhart,  121]:  ed. 
Aristoteles,  De  animalibus 

POGIUS,  Jacobus,  of  Bologna,  fl.  1500  [Cosenza  1 .693c  confuses 
him  with  Jacopo  di  Poggio  Bracciolini,  1441-1478] 
Opus  morale  (Italian,  with  Latin:  quodSigillum  auris  appel- 
latur  [dedication];  dedicated  (Cosi  como  la  salamandra  in  el 
fuoco  si  nutrica)  and  with  commendatory  verse  to  Camilla 
Bentivoglio,  Poor  Clare,  daughter  of  Giovanni  II 
Bentivoglio:  I  32  (P-882) 

Politianus,  Angelus  (Angelo  Ambrogini  Poliziano),  1454-1494, 
Florentine  scholar  [Cont.  Eras.  3.106;  DAGL,  707]:  transla 
tor  of  Herodianus,  Historia  de  imperio  post  Marcum;  with 
dedications  to  Andreas  Magnanimus  of  Bologna,  6  May 
1483  (Incip.:  Efflagitari  scribis  istic  ab  Us  qui  libros  excudunt 
formis:  Herodianum  meum);  and  to  Pope  Innocent  VIII, 
1487  (Incip.:  Cum  Rome  ab  hinc  triennium  ferme  in  comitatu 
essem) 

PORPHYRIUS,  234-C.305/10,  of  Tyre?  studied  at  Athens,  Rome 
[OCD,  1226;  NeuePauly  10.174]:  De  occasionibus  (XX)  - 
De  abstinentia:  in  lamblichus 
Isagoge  (Gr.):  in  Aristoteles,  Opera  (Gr.),  vol.  I 

Possidius  Calamensis,  d.  after  437,  Bp.  of  Calamo  (Guelma, 
Algiers)  [CPL,  134;  NeuePauly  10.217;  Altaner,  419].  De 
vita  et  moribus  sancti  Augustini  [CPL  358;  BHL  785]:  in 
Augustinus,  Opuscula 


267 


Priscianus  Lydus,  6th  cent.  [Netie  Pauly  10.344]:  In 
Theophrastum  De  sensu:  in  lamblichus 

PROBA,  Faltonia  Betitia,  4th  cent.,  d.  bef.  380,  Christian  poetess 
[OCD,  1249;  Neue  Pauly  10.365;  Altaner,  405] 
Cento  Vergilianus  (extract):  in  Phil,  de  Barberis 

Processus  iudiciarius  (explicit:  Litigatio  Manscaron  contra  genus 
humanum)  (Accessit  Mascaron  ad  del  omnipotentis  presentiam 
etait)  [attributed  to  Bartolus  de  Saxoferrato  in  some  Mss.; 
anonymous  in  all  incunable  printings,  the  Italian  editions 
mostly  with  title:  Tractatus  procuratoris  editus  sub  nomine 
diaboli.  Robert  Jacquin,  'Le  proces  de  Satan',  in  Bartolo  da 
Sassoferrato:  studi  e  documenti  (Milan,  1962),  2.269-80,  cau 
tiously  positive  on  Bartolus's  authorship]:  II  95.7  (P-1001) 

PROCLUS,  412-485,  Constantinople,  Alexandria,  Athens  [OCD, 
1250;  Neue  Pauly  10.383]:  In  Platonis  Alcibiadem  and  De 
sacrificio  et  magia:  in  lamblichus 

PROSPER  (Tiro)  Aquitanus,  fl.  c.  420-455,  Gallia,  Rome  [GPL, 
184;  OCD,  1263;  Neue  Pauly  10.447] 
Chronicon  (to  455)  [CPL  2257]:  in  Eusebius,  Chronicon 

PSELLUS,  Michael,  10 18-?  1078,  Constantinople  [OCD,  1269; 
Neue  Pauly  10.506]:  De  daemonibus:  in  lamblichus 

PUBLICIUS,  Jacobus,  'Florentinus',  fl.  1 450s- 1 470s,  of  Salamanca, 
used  Florentinus  as  a  cognomen  of  prestige,  itinerant 
humanist  teacher:  Valentia,  Toulouse,  Louvain,  Erfurt, 
Leipzig,  Vienna,  Cologne,  Cracow,  Basel,  ?Rheims 
[Agostino  Sottili,  Giacomo  Publicio,  Hispanus,  e  la  diffusione 
dell'  Umanesimo  in  Germania  (Barcelona,  1985)] 
Oratoriae  artis  epitomata  (Oratoriae  institutiones  [dedicated 
to  Cyrillus  Caesar]  -  Ars  epistolandi  [dedicated  to  Federico 
of  Aragon,  Prince  ofTarento]  —Ars  memoriae;  edited  by  Joh. 
Luc.  Santritter,  who  interpolated  his  name,  and  once  that  of 
Erhard  Ratdolt,  in  the  Ars  epistolandi):  II  87  (P-1096) 

Puteolanus,  Franciscus  (Francesco  dal  Pozzo),  fl.  c.l467-d.  1490, 
Bologna,  Parma,  Milan  [DBI  32.213;  Lino  Sighinolfi, 
'Francesco  Puteolano  e  le  origin!  della  stampa  in  Bologna  e 
Parma',  La  Bibliofilia  15(1913/14)  263-6,  331-44,  383-92, 
451-67;  Reichhart,  124]:  Vita  Ovidii:  in  Ovidius 

PYTHAGORAS,  6th  cent.  BC,  viz.  later  Pythagorean  writings  [OCD, 
1283;  Neue  Pauly  10.649]:  Aurea  verba,  Symbola:  in 
lamblichus 

QUODVULTDEUS,  fl.  417-437,  Bp.  of  Carthage  [CPL,  156;  Neue 
Pauly  10.735;  Altaner,  449] 
Sermo  1 0:  see  ps.-Augustinus,  Contra  V  haereses 

RADULPHUS  Cantuariensis  (Ralph  d'Escures),  d.  1 122,  of 

Normandy,  OSB,  Arbp.  of  Canterbury  1114  [Sharpe,  447]: 
see  ps.-  Anselmus,  Homilia  in  Lucam 


RAMPIGOLLIS  /  RAMPEGOLUS,  Antonius,  d.  a.  1423,  of  Genoa, 
OESA  [Zumkeller,  62] 

Compendium  morale  (Prol.:  Religiosis  viris  in  Christo  sibi 
dilectis  studentibus  Neapolitan!  conventus  fratrum  heremitarum 
ordinis  sancti  Augustini,  frater  .N.  de  lanua  . . .  salutem) 
[Zumkeller  1 17;  addressed  to  the  Naples  convent  of 
Augustinian  Hermits]:  II  88  (R-22) 

ps.-:  Aurea  Biblia  (Abstinentia primo  est  meriti  augmentativa) 
[Zumkeller  115.  Victor  Scholderer,  A  Further  Note  on 
Nicolaus  Hanapus',  Gutenberg-] ahrbuch  1939:  153-4,  argues 
convincingly  that  the  text  is  identical  to  Bindus  de  Senis, 
Distinctiones  exemplorum  veteris  et  novi  Testamenti 
(Zumkeller  202),  with  Rampigollis'  prologue  from  his 
Compendium  morale  prefixed  by  an  editorial  error  in 
Giinther  Zainer's  shop.  Bindus's  text  with  his  own  prologue 
( Tanta pallet  excellentia) ,  and  with  author's  name  as  'frater  B. 
ordinis  sancti  Augustini',  was  printed  Memmingen:  A. 
Kunne,  1485  (Goff  N-104,  misassigned  to  Nicolaus  de 
Hanapis)]:II89(R-12) 

Ratdolt,  Erhard,  1447-c.  1528,  printer  in  Venice  and  Augsburg 
[Geldner  1.150,  2.72;  Needham,  170,  173]:  dedicator  of 
Joh.  Angelus,  Astrolabium  (to  Albert,  Duke  of  Bavaria)  —  of 
Haly,  De  iudiciis  astrorum  (to  Johann  von  Werdenberg,  Bp. 
of  Augsburg) 

Reuchlin,  Johannes,  1455-1522,  of  Pforzheim  [Cont.  Eras. 
3.145]:  Commendatory  matter  in  Pet.  Schott 

RlCHARDUS  de  Sancto  Laurentio,  d.  c.1260,  penitentiary,  Rouen 
[Dict.spir.  13.590] 

De  laudibus  Beatae  Mariae  Virginis  [NB:  entered  as 
Albertus  Magnus  or  pseudo-Albertus  in  most  incunable  cata 
logues,  but  anonymous  in  this  edition  and  all  preceding 
manuscripts;  Richardus  implicitly  identifies  himself  by  refer 
ring  to  his  earlier  De  virtutibus as  by  the  same  author]:  II  6.2 
(A-247) 

Robert  de  Braci,  OSA,  prior  of  Lanthony,  d.  1 137  [Sharpe,  526]: 
see  ps. -Anselmus,  De  Anselmi  similitudinibus 

ROLEWINCK,  Werner,  1425-1502,  OCarth,  Cologne  [VL  8.153] 
Fasciculus  temporum:  II  91  (R-275)  —German:  II  90  (R- 

281) 

RUFINUS,  Tyrannius,  c.345-41 1,  of  Aquileia  [CPL,  63;  OCD, 
1337;  Neue  Pauly  10. 1 1 54;  Altaner,  392] 
Apologia  ad  Anastasium  [CPL  198]:  in  Hieronymus, 
Epistolae  et  tractatus 

Apologia  contra  Hieronymum  [CPL  197]:  in  Hieronymus, 
Epistolae  et  tractatus 

Expositio  symboli:  see  ps. -Hieronymus,  Expositio  symboli 
Praefationes  in  libros  peri  archon  Origenis  [CPL  198e]:  in 
Hieronymus,  Epistolae  et  tractatus 
tr.:  Origenes,  Commentarius  in  Cantica  canticorum 

Santritter,  Johannes  Lucilius,  ofHeilbronn,  editor-publisher- 
printer  in  Venice,  I480s-90s  [Geldner  2.86;  Needham,  179, 
190,  197;  Reichhart,  133]:  ed.:  Eusebius  Caesariensis, 
Chronicon  -  Hyginus,  Poetica  astronomica- Jac.  Publicius, 
Oratoriae  artis  epitomata 


268 


SCHOTT,  Peter,  1458-1490,  Srrassburg 
humanist  patrician  [VL  8.831] 
Lucubrationes  ornatissimae,  ed. 
Jacob  Wimpheling,  including  his 
letter  to  the  reader,  afterword,  and 
verse;  other  commendatory  verse 
and  prose  by  Jodocus  Gallus, 
Bohuslas  von  Hassenstein- 
Lobkovic,  Conradus  Leontorius, 
Johannes  Reuchlin,  Johannes 
Symler,  and  Adam  Wernher:  II  92 
(S-321) 

Sentinus,  Jacobus,  Ricinensis,  fl.  1480s, 
Venice,  au.  also  of  brief  tract  De 
quibusdam  lyricis  carminibus,  print 
ed  in  Franc.  Matartius,  De  compo 
nents  versibus,  Venice:  Ratdolt,  25 
Nov.  [1482],  GoffM-347  [cf. 
Cosenza  4.3247c;  Reichhart,  135]: 
ed.  and  commendatory  verse: 
Hyginus 

Sicamber,  Rutger,  b.  c.  1456,  fl.  to 
1516/17,  OSA  ofVenray,  close 
friend  of  Joh.  Tritheim  [Cont.  Eras. 
3.  301;  MGG  11.1994s.v. 
Rutgerus  de  Venray] : 
Commendatory  verse  in  Tritheim, 
De  laudibus  S.  Annae 

Sieben  weisen  Meister:  see  Historia 
septem  sapientum  Romae 

Speculum  Christian!  (leronimus  in  prin- 
cipio  cuiuslibet  opens)  [Speculum 
Christiani,  ed.  Gustaf  Holmstedt, 
EETS,  OS  182  (1933),  anonymous, 
later  14th  cent.;  the  author  given  in 
many  catalogues  (Duff,  Goff,  STC), 
John  Watton  /  Wotton,  was  the 
15th-cent.  scribe  of  Corpus  Christi 
Oxford  Ms.  155,  a  miscellaneous 
volume  including  this  text;  more 
than  60  Ms.  copies  are  known. 
Interspersed  in  the  Latin  text  is  mis 
cellaneous  English  verse  intended  to 
serve  as  doctrinal  mnemonics. 
Machlinia's  edition  adds  additional 
similar  doctrinalia,  not  found  in  the 
Mss.]:II93(W-9) 

SPEUSIPPUS,  c.407-339  BC,  Plato's 

nephew  [OCD,  1434;  Kl.  Pauly, 
5.304]:  De  Platonis  definitionibus: 
in  lamblichus 

SPRENGER,  Jacobus,  c.  1436-1495,  OP 
[VL  9.149;  Kaeppeli  2.341],  co 
author  of  the  Malleus  maleficarum 
(see  Henr.  Institoris) 


Squarzaficus,  Hieronymus,  humanist, 
editor,  fl.  Venice,  1471-1503  [J. 
Allenspach  &  G.  Frasso,  'Vicende, 
cultura  e  scritti  di  Gerolamo 
Squarzafico  alessandrino',  Italia 
mediaeval*  e  umanistica  23  (1980): 
233-92;  Reichhart,  137]:  comm.: 
Petrarca 

Steinhowel,  Heinrich,  1411/12-1479, 
Ulm,  student  in  Vienna,  Padua, 
M.D.,  city  physician  of  Ulm, 
humanist,  chief  patron  of  the  press 
of  Johann  Zainer  [VL  9.258]:  see 
Aesopus 

Symler,  Johannes,  later  15th  cent., 
Vienna  [Rupprich,  476]: 
Commendatory  verse  in  Joh. 
Tritheim,  De  laudibus  S.  Annae  - 
Peter  Schott,  Lucubrationes 

SYNESIUS,  c.370-413,  of  Gyrene,  Bp.  of 
Ptolemais  from  410  [OCD,  1463; 
Kl.  Pauly  5.453;  LThK  9.1231]:  De 
Somniis:  in  lamblichus 

THEOBALDUS,  'episcopus';  llth  cent., 
Italy?;  not  Theobaldus,  Abb.  of 
Monte  Cassino  1022-35  [Theobaldi 
Physiologus,  ed.,  comm.,  tr.  P.  T. 
Eden  (Leiden,  1972)] 
Physiologus  de  naturis  XII  animal- 
ium  (with  prose  comm.:  Quoniam 
secundum  Platonem  nihil  est  ortum 
sub  sole):  II  94  (T-14Q) 

THEOBALDUS  de  Sexannia,  fl.  mid- 13th 
cent.,  Paris,  OP  [Kaeppeli  4.392] 
Errores  Judaeorum  in  Talmud  - 
Probationes  novi  testament!  ex  vet- 
eri  [Anon.;  Kaeppeli  3672]:  II  95.6 
(E-106) 

THEOPHRASTUS,  c.371-c.287  BC,  of 

Eresus  (Lesbos),  colleague  and  suc 
cessor  of  Aristotle  [OCD,  1504;  Kl. 
Pauly  5.720]:  see  Aristoteles,  Opera 
(Gr.) 

Thomas  a  Kempis:  see  Kempis 

THOMAS  Aquinas  (Saint),  c.  1225-1274, 
OP  [James  A.  Weisheipl,  Friar 
Thomas  d' Aquino  (Oxford,  1974); 
Grabmann;  DAGL,  842;  VL  9.813] 
De  articulis  fidei  (Postulavit  a  me 
vestra  dilectio)  [Grabmann,  32 1  (no. 
8]:  see  ps.-Hieronymus,  De  essentia 
trinitatis 

De  ente  et  essentia  (Quia parvus 
error  in  principio  magnus  est  in  fine) 
[Grabmann,  342  (no.  28)]  ,  with 


commentary  of  Caietanus  and  his 
dedication  to  Benedictus  Tyriaca:  I 
44  (HR  1505) 

Summa  theologica,  II  (ii)  (Post 
communem  considerationem  de  vir- 
tutibus  et  vitiis)  [Grabmann,  294 
(no.  3),  c.l 266-72]:  I  35,  36,  37 
Summa  theologica,  III  (Quia  salva- 
tor  noster  Dominus  lesus  Christus 
teste  angelo)  [Grabmann,  294  (no. 
3)]:  I  38 

Postilla  in  lob  (Sicut  in  rebus  quae 
naturaliter  generantur  paulatim  ex 
imperfecto  ad perfectum  pervenitur) 
[Grabmann,  251  (no.  1)]:  I  39  (T- 
236) 

Summa  contra  gentiles  ( Veritatem 
meditabitur  guttur  meum) 
[Grabmann,  290  (no.  2)]:  I  40,  41 
Super  quarto  libro  Sententiarum 
(Misit  verbum  suum  et  sanavit  eos) 
[Grabmann,  286  (no.  1)]:  I  29 
Catena  aurea  super  quatuor  evan- 
gelistas  (colophon:  Glosa  continua 
super  quatuor  Evangelistas   [dedica 
tion  of  Matthew  to  Pope  Urban  IV]: 
Fans  sapientiae  unigenitum  Dei  ver 
bum)  [Grabmann,  261  (no.  7)]:  I 
42 

Commentaria  in  epistolas  Pauli 
(prologue,  Romans:  Vas  electionis 
etc.  Homines  in  sacra  scriptura 
invenibuntur  vasis  comparatf),  ed. 
Petrus  de  Bergamo  [Grabmann, 
266  (no.  10)]:  I  43 
comm.:  Aristoteles,  De  coelo 

THOMAS  Gallus,  d.1246,  OSA  St.  Victor, 
Paris,  then  abbot  of  OSA  St. 
Andreas,  Vercelli  [Diet.  spir.  11.786] 
De  septem  gradibus  contemplatio- 
nis:  see  ps.-Bonaventura 

Thomas  Magister,  c.  1275-1346,  of 
Thessalonica,  Byzantine  scholar 
[DAGL,  846;  TLGC  9023.x l-x2]: 
see  Aristophanes 

Tifernas,  Lilius,  c.  1417-1486,  notary, 
travelled  to  Constantinople,  taught 
in  Volterra,  Perugia  [cf.  CTC 
7.160]:  ed.  and  transl.,  Johannes 
Chrysostomus,  Sermones  de  paten- 
tia  in  Job 

Traversarius,  Ambrosius  (Ambrogio 

Traversari),  1386-1439,  OCamald, 
vicar  general  of  the  order;  Greek 
scholar  [DAGL,  857]:  tr.  Johannes 
Chrysostomus,  De  providentia  Dei 


269 


Triclinius,  Demetrius,  c.  1280- 1340, 
Byzantine  scholar  [DAGL,  857]: 
scholia  and  introductory  material  in 
Aristophanes 

TRITHEIM,  Johann,  1462-1516,  abbot  of 
OSB  Sponheim  (1483),  then  of 
OSB  Scotorum  Wiirzburg  (1506) 
[Cont.  Eras.  3.344;  Arnold] 
De  cura  pastorali  [Arnold,  234]:  II 
97  (T-436) 

De  laudibus  S.  Annae  [  Voti  compel- 
lit  necessitas  et  mentis  perurget  devo- 
tio.  BHL  1.82,  no.  492;  Arnold, 
237];  with  his  dedication  to 
Rumoldus  Laupach,  Carmelite 
prior  in  Frankfurt  am  Main 
(Sponheim,  1  July  1494:  Voto  nostro 
et  tuis petitionibus  optime pater);  and 
with  commendatory  verse  by 
Conrad  Celtis,  Dietrich  Gresemund 
Jr.,  Rudolf  von  Langen,  Rudolf 
Agricola,  Rutger  Sicamber  (8 
poems),  Jodocus  Beissel,  Adam 
Werner  of  Themar,  Badius 
Ascensius,  and  Johannes  Herbst:  I 
45  (T-446) 

De  statu  et  ruina  monastic!  ordinis 
/  Liber  penthicus,  with  dedication 
to  Blasius  Scheltrub,  OSB  Abb.  of 
Hirsau  (21  Apr.  1493)  [Arnold, 
229]:  II  97(T-453) 
De  triplici  regione  claustralium  et 
spiritual!  exercitio  monachorum  — 
Compendium  quotidiani  spiritu- 
alis  exercitii  [Arnold,  231]:  II  97 
(T-456) 

Oratio  de  XII  excidiis  observantiae 
regularis,  with  dedication  to 
Johannes  Distenius  (24  Aug.  1496) 
and  commendatory  verse  of 
Matthaeus  Herbenus)  [Arnold, 
234]:  II  97(T-449) 

TURRECREMATA,  Johannes  de,  1388- 

1468,  ofValladolid,  OP,  Card,  from 

1439  [Kaeppeli  3.24;  Diet.  spir. 

15.1048] 

Quaestiones  Evangeliorum  de  tem- 

pore  et  de  sanctis  [Kaeppeli  2735] 

(with  Nicolaus  de  Byard,  Flos  the- 

ologiae  sive  Summa  de  abstinen- 

tia):  II  103  (T-554) 

Expositio  Psalterii  [Kaeppeli  2734): 

II  98  (T-519),  99  (T-520),  100  (T- 

522),  101  (T-527) 

De  efficacia  aquae  benedictae 

[Kaeppeli  2715]:  II  102  (T-508) 


UBERTINUS  de  Casali,  1259-C.1329, 
OFM,  leader  of  the  Spiritual 
Franciscans  [Diet.  spir.  16.3] 
Arbor  vitae  crucifixae  Jesu  Christi 
(7503):  n  104  (U-55) 

VALERIANUS  Cemeliensis,  d.  c.460,  Bp. 
of  Cimiez  [GPL,  325].  De  bono 
disciplinae  (Homelia  1)  [CPL 
1002]:  see  ps.- Augustinus 

VENANTIUS  Fortunatus  (V.  Honorius 

Clementianus  F.),  c.530-600,  poet, 
Bp.  of  Poitiers  [CPL,  337;  OCD, 
1586;  KL  Pauly  5.1 162;  Altaner, 
499]:  De  resurrectione  Christi:  in 
Lactantius 

VERGERIUS,  Petrus  Paulus,  1370-1444, 
author  of  De  ingenuis  moribus  [John 
M.  McManamon,  SJ,  Pierpaolo 
Vergerio  the  Elder:  the  Humanist  as 
Orator  (Tempe,  Ariz.,  1996)] 
Sermo  de  laudibus  Hieronymi 
(Sermo  8)  [BHM  915;  ed.  John  M. 
McManamon,  SJ,  Pierpaolo  Vergerio 
the  Elder  and  Saint  Jerome  (Tempe, 
Ariz.,  1999),  220-33]:  in 
Hieronymus,  Epistolae  et  tractatus 

Viola  sanctorum:  see  Martyrologium 

Virsen,  Hermannus  de,  fl.  Venice,  1495 
[Reichhart,  153]:  ed.,  Aristoteles, 
De  coelo 

Vitalis,  Franciscus,  Bodianus:  ed., 
Martianus  Capella,  De  nuptiis 
Philologiae  et  Mercurii 

Walafridus  Strabo,  808/9-849,  abbot  of 
Reichenau  838,  teacher  of  Charles 
the  Bald  [VL  10.584]:  see 
Ludolphus  de  Saxonia 

WALTER  Map,  c.l  140-1210,  archdeacon 
of  Oxford  [Sharpe,  737] 
De  nugis  curialium  (Dist.  IV  3-5): 
see  ps. -Hieronymus,  Epistola 
Valeriani  ad  Rufinum 

Watton  /  Wotton,  John,  15th-cent. 
English  scribe,  apocryphal  as 
known  author:  see  Speculum 
Christian! 


Wernher,  Adam,  c.l 462- 1537,  of 

Themar,  M.A.  Heidelberg  1489, 
tutor  to  the  children  of  Palgrave 
Philip  [VL  10.9 15]: 
Commendatory  verse  in  Joh. 
Tritheim,  De  laudibus  S.  Annae  - 
Pet.  Schott 

Wimpheling,  Jacob,  1450-1528,  of 
Selestat,  professor  in  Speyer, 
Heidelberg,  Strassburg  [Cont.  Eras. 
3.447]  :ed.  Pet.  Schott 

ps.-Xenocrates,  De  morte:  in  lamblichus 

ZUTPHANIA,  Gerardus  de  (Gerhard 
Zerbolt,  Zutphanensis),  1367- 
1398,  OSA  Windesheim  [VL 
10.1537] 

De  spiritualibus  ascensionibus 
(Beatus  vir  cuius  est  auxilium  abs  te) 
(with  excerpts  from  David  de 
Augusta,  De  exterioris  et  interioris 
hominis  compositione)]:  I  6.3  (G- 
177) 

De  reformatione  virium  animae 
(De  lapsu  hominis  a  statu  rectitudi- 
nis:  Homo  quidem  descendit  de 
Hierusalem  in  Hiericho):  II  70.2  (G- 
171) 


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INDEX  OF  PROVENANCE 


INITIALS;  OTHER  UNIDENTIFIED  OWNERSHIP  MARKS 

FaVX  Satanae  Sedes  Apostolica  666  (early  inscn.):  II  30  (B-561) 

F  G,  monogram  in  ink  at  foot  of  first  page:  II  43  (C-1010) 

H  M,  fl.  NYC,  1890  (pencil  note  of  purchase  at  Hamilton  Cole 
sale,  q.v.):  II  87  (P-1096) 

L  S  F  C  S  D  M  H  M  F,  1558  (title-p.  inscn.):  II  76  (C-l  17) 
M  S  P  S:  initials  within  large  key:  131  (P-486,  v.  II) 

Unlocated  religious  houses:  stamp:  Annunciation,  with  letters  N 
E:  II  12  (A-938) 

inscn.:  Monasterium  S.  Urbani:  I  6  (B-506  +  M-432  +  G- 
177) 

deleted  inscn.,  apparently  ending  ...  B  V M  Vnelensium  1606 
(?cf.  Unering,  nr.  Stamberg):  II  95  (1-4  +  H-192  +  H-179  + 
A-1225  +  A-1333  &  1337  +  E-106  +  P-1001  +  G-221  +  A- 
1089) 


INSTITUTIONAL  OWNERS 

ANDECHS  (Upper  Bav.),  Benedictines  (S.  Nicolaus,  BMV):  I  38 
(T-219) 

AUGSBURG,  Benedictines  (Ss.  Ulrich  &  Afra):  I  5  (A- 1396) 
BAMBERG,  Benedictines  (S.  Michael  Archangel):  I  27  (N-219) 
BERLIN,  Staatsbibliothek  /  Kgl.  Bibliothek:  II  65  (1-181) 
BlBERACH,  Capuchins  (inscn.):  I  39  (T-236) 

BIELEFELD,  Franciscans,  Observant  (inscn.):  II  103  (T-554  +  C- 
923) 

BIRMINGHAM,  Selly  Oak  Colleges,  J.  Rendel  Harris  Library:  II  34 
(B-927),  96  (1-40) 

BRITISH  RAIL  Pension  Fund:  II  10  (A-71 1) 

BUXHEIM  (Swabia),  Carthusians  (Aula  BMV  /  Maria  Saal);  see 
also  Hilp.  Brandenburg:  I  24  (N-176);  II  20  (A- 12 17) 

CELLS  (Lower  Saxony,  35  km  NE  of  Hannover),  unidentified 
monastery  (ex  bibliotheca  monasterii  Cellemis):  I  8  (GW 
5678) 

CORDOBA,  Jesuit  College  (inscn.;  stamp):  II  5  (A-297) 
DORTMUND,  Dominicans  (S.  Johannes  Baptista):  I  30  (D-381) 
DRESDEN,  Konigliche  Bibliothek:  II  39  (C-575) 
EDINBURGH,  Society  of  Writers  to  the  Signet:  II  102  (T-508) 

ECGENBURG  (Lower  Austr.),  Franciscans  (deleted  17th-cent. 
inscn.):  H  50  (G-415) 

ElCHSTATT,  Episcopal  Library  (Bibliotheca  aulica)  (inscn.):  II  66 
0-120) 

ERFURT,  Benedictines  (Ss.  Peter  &  Paul):  I  35  (T-208) 


FORLI,  Hieronymites  (Me  ex  amicorum  sumptibus  emptum  concessit 
fratri  francisco  phylolauro  de  castrocario  f-corio?J  reverendus 
pater  Fr.  hyeronimus  Torniellus  ...  anno p° M°.  D°.  Vij°.  Et 
pertineo  ad  bibliotecam  Sancti  hieronimi  intra  forliuium);  see 
also  Franc.  Phylolaurus,  Hier.  Torniellus:  II  11  (A-761: 
1507) 

Fundatio  Baldaufica:  see  Hall  (Tyrol) 

FOSSEN  (Swab.),  Benedictines  (S.  Mang  /  Magnus)  (15th-cent. 
inscn.):  I  31  (P-486,  vol.  I);  II  83  (P-479) 

HALL  (Tyrol),  Franciscans,  Fundatio  Baldaufica  /  Waldauff'sche 
Stiftung,  founded  1 509  by  Florian  Waldauf,  imperial  coun 
cillor:  II  3  (A- 174) 

HASNON,  nr.  Valenciennes,  Benedictines  (rubricated  i486):  II  80 
(P-456) 

HERZOGENBURG  (Austr.),  Augustinians  (stamps;  bkpl.):  II  96  (I- 
40) 

HOHENBUSCH  nr.  Aachen  (Alti  nemoris),  Crutched  Friars  (inscn., 
1778;  see  also  Germ.  Ruremund):  II  71  Q-289  +  two  15th- 
cent.  Mss.) 

LlESBORN  (Westph.),  Benedictines,  Bursfeld  congr.  (Ss.  Cosmas  & 
Damian):  II  27  (B-389  +  A-237) 

LOBECK,  Hospital  (Antonites):  I  30  (D-381) 

LUCCA,  Franciscans  (Delia  libreria  di  san  francesco  di  Lucca):  II  1 1 
(A-761) 

LVON,  University  (stamp:  ACAD.  LUGD.;  release  stamp  1843):  II  60 
(H-300) 

MANCHESTER,  John  Rylands  University  Library;  auct.  Sotheby's 
London,  14  April  1988  (monogram  and  stamps):  II  13  (A- 
959:  lot  10) 

MILAN,  Augustinian  Hermits  /  Austin  Friars,  Observants  (BMV 
Coronata)  (15th-cent.  inscn.):  II  57  (H-169) 
Biblioteca Trivulziana  (dupl.  stamp):  II  9  (A-561) 

MOSCOW,  University:  I  2  (A-958) 

(outside  Moscow:)  Monastery  (Lavra)  /  Seminary,  Holy 
Trinity  and  St.  Sergius  of  Radonzh  (S.  Thaumaturgi  Sergii- 
Bibliotheca  seminarii  ad  Laurat.  Stae.  Triados)  [Marguerite 
Studemeister,  Bookplates  and  their  Owners  in  Imperial  Russia 
(Tenafly,  N.J.,  1991),  162,  192):  I  2  (A-958) 

MUNICH,  Staatsbibliothek  /  Kgl.  Bibliothek  (stamps):  II  87  (P- 
1096) 

NEW  YORK  CITY,  Grolier  Club:  I  37  (T-21 1) 

Manhattan  College;  auct.  Christie's  NY  1  June  1991:  II  66 
(J-120) 

NUREMBERG,  Carthusians  (Cella  BMV/  Mariazell):  I  34?  (T-352: 
Ad  cellam  E] 
Stadtbibliothek:  I  34  (T-352) 

Oberherrlingen,  Bibliothek:  see  Eug.  Maucler 

PARIS,  Augustinian  Hermits  /  Austin  Friars  (Blancs  Manteaux) 

(15th-cent.  inscn.:  Sum  librarie  fratrum  alborum  mantellorum 
ordinis  sancti guillelmi parisius):  II  4  (A-236) 


271 


POLLING,  Augustinians  (S.  Salvator,  Crux,  Jacobus)  (inscn.):  II  95 
(1-4  +  H-192  +  H-179  +  A-1225  +  A-1333  &  1337  +  E-106 
+  P-1001  +  G-221  +  A- 1089:  1769) 

REBDORF,  nr.  Eichstatt,  Augustinians  (S.  Johannes  Baptista) 
(15th-cent.  inscn.):  II  26  (B-437) 

SCHAFFHAUSEN,  Benedictines  (Omnes  Sancti):  I  42  (T-229,  ex- 
dono  Jo.  Henr.  Colmannus) 

SEITENSTETTEN  (Austr.),  Benedictines:  I  4  (A- 1227) 

Selly  Oak:  see  Birmingham 

STUTTGART,  Landesbibliothek:  I  39  (T-236) 

TEGERNSEE  (Bav.),  Benedictines  (Ss.  Petrus,  Paulus,  Quirinus) 
(inscn.):  II  85  (E-74) 

TENBURY  WELLS  (Worcs.),  St.  Michael's  College;  auct.  Sotheby's 
21  November  1990:  II  48  (G-6:  lot  339) 

VIENNA,  Dominicans  (BMV):  II  74  (L-205) 

University,  Faculty  of  Philosophy:  I  41  (T-190:  1686) 

WALDSEE  (UPPER  SWAB.),  Augustinians  (S.  Petrus)  (15th-cent. 
inscn.):  II  70  Q-437  +  G-171  +  B-404) 

WEINGARTEN,  Benedictines  (Ss.  Martinus,  Oswaldus,  Johannes 
Baptista,  Alto)  (bkpl.):  II  7  (A-273:  1630) 

WiJRZBURG,  Franciscans,  Conventuals  (S.  Crux)  (17th-c.  inscn.): 
II  68  (J-436) 

PERSONAL  OWNERS 

Abbey,  J.  R.,  Major,  1894-1969;  Redlynch  House,  Salis.  [DNB]; 
auct.  Sotheby's,  I,  21  June  1965:  II  21  (A-1219:  lot  103) 

Abrams,  George,  1919-2001,  New  York  City,  graphic  and  type 
designer;  auct.  Sotheby's,  16  Nov.  1989  (label):  I  15  (H-86: 
lot  15),  39  (T-236:  lot  120);  II 43  (C- 10 10:  lot  41),  50  (G- 
415:  lot  55),  61  (H-560:  lot  69),  78  (O-128:  lot  91),  92  (S- 
321:  lot  112),  100  (T-522:  lot  124),  6  (A-272  +  247:  lot  3), 
67  (A-772:  lot  74),  108  (A-911:  lot  8),  16  (GW  2814:  lot 
11),  64  0-216:  lot  70),  41  (C-631:  lot  37),  57  (H-169:  lot 
65),  54  (P-89:  lot  60) 

Adams,  Crawford  W.,  M.D.,  auct.  Sotheby's  NY  5  May  1982:  II 
16  (GW  2814:  lot  16) 

Alberg,  Henricus,  Nicolaus  and  Leo  de,  nobiles,  of  Galen(?)  nr. 
Regensburg  (inscn.):  II  75  (M-262:  7527) 

Ammianus,  Samuel,  of  Schaffhausen,  fl.  1574: 1  42  (T-229:  gift  to 
J.  H.  Colmannus,  Strassburg,  q.v.) 

Andrade,  Jose  Maria,  1807-1883,  Mexico  City,  bookseller-editor; 
his  important  library  purchased  by  Emperor  Maximilian, 
q.v.,  for  a  destined  Biblioteca  Imperial;  at  the  latter's  death 
shipped  to  Europe,  and  sold  at  auction,  Leipzig,  18  Jan. 
1 869  (bkpl.)  [Diccionario  Porrua  de  ...  Mexico,  6th  ed. 
(Mexico  City,  1995)  1.166]:  I  29  (T-168;  not  in  the  auction 
catalogue) 

Anetenwyl,  Ludovicus  a,  16th  cent,  (inscn.):  I  6  (B-506  +  M-432 

+  G-177,  1569) 


Aquavita,  Bartholomaeus  ab,  16/1 7th  cent,  (inscn.):  115  (H-86) 

Archinto,  Carlo,  Count,  1670-1732  [DBI];  auct.  Paris,  1863 
(bkpl.):  II  57  (H-169) 

Arenberg,  Dukes  of,  the  chief  bibliophile  Engelbert  August,  8th 
Duke,  1824-1875  (many  books  sold  in  1950s  in  NYC  dealer 
catalogues,  e.g.  Walter  Schab  cats.  22,  23,  25;  H.  P.  Kraus 
cat.  83,  L.  C.  Harper  cat.  4):  II  58  (R-351:  Schab  cat.  23  no. 
42),  ?85  (E-74) 

Ascherson,  C.  S.,  d.  1945,  of  Merton  Coll.,  Oxf.,  member  of 

London  Metal  Exchange;  his  library  purchased  by  Quaritch 
(bkpl.):  II  41  (C-631),  78  (O-128) 

Barros,  Ferdinand,  fl.  1847:  II  12  (A-938:  presentation  letter,  24 
June  1847) 

Bennett,  Richard,  of  Worsley,  nr.  Manchester:  see  Wm.  Morris 

Beristayn,  Jorge,  d.  1954,  of  Buenos  Aires:  II  75  (M-262),  89  (R- 
12) 

Beuvain  de  Beausejour,  Paul,  Arbp.  of  Toulouse,  early  20th  cent.; 
auct.  Sotheby's  27  Mar.  1972:  II  93  (W-9:  lot  155) 

Bisping,  B.  F,  sacellanus  of  Harsewinkel,  18th/19th  cent,  (inscn. 
23Apr.l801):II77(N-81) 

Brandenburg,  Hilprand,  1442-1514,  of  Biberach,  canon  of 

Stuttgart,  donate  priest  of  Buxheim  Charterhouse  to  which 
he  gave  his  extensive  library  [P.  Needham,  'The  Library  of 
Hilprand  Brandenburg',  Bibliothek  und  Wissenschaft  29 
(1996  [1997]),  95-124;  Thirteen  More  Books  from  the 
Library  of  Hilprand  Brandenburg',  Einbandforschung,  Heft  4 
(Feb.  1999),  23-5]:  124  (N-176) 

Bridge,  Alex  (bkpl.):  II  102  (T-508) 

Brooke,  F.  C.,  Capt.,  fl.  1845,  of  Ufford,  Woodbridge  (Sufi):  II 
23  (A- 1431  +  Galen:  Venice.  1521) 

Bruce,  George  and  David  Wolfe,  NYC  printers,  their  collection 
given  to  the  Grolier  Club:  I  37  (T-21 1) 

Cavendish:  see  Devonshire 

Chamerato,  Agostino,  17th  cent,  (inscn.):  II  1  (A-7:  2  Oct.  1628) 

Cilia,  Bricius  de,  mag.  (Briccius  Prepost,  of  Cilli/Celje,  Lower 

Steiermark),  fl.  !469-d.l505,  cathedral  canon,  Vienna;  dean 
and  rector  of  the  university  [A.  Lhotsky,  Die  Wiener 
Artistenfakultdt  1365-1497(1965),  171-3]:  I  4  (A- 1227) 

Cole,  Hamilton,  1844-1889,  B.A.  Yale  1866,  of  NYC,  lawyer, 
collector  of  Richard  de  Bury  (auct.  NYC,  Bangs,  8  April 
1 890):  II  87  (P- 1096) 

Colmannus,  Joannes  Henricus,  pastor  of  Oberhochstadt,  fl.  1574: 
I  42  (T-229,  ex-dono  Sam.  Ammianus,  Strassburg,  Apr. 
1574;  to  be  given  to  Benedictines  of  Schaffhausen) 

Creswick,  H.  R.  (Harry  Richardson),  Cambridge  University 

Librarian,  20th  cent.;  auct.  Sotheby's,  27  April  1982  (bkpl.): 
II78(O-128:lot473) 


272 


Cretschmar,  Nicolaus,  de  Borlitz,  15/l6th  cent,  (inscn.):  I  23  (M- 
339) 

Davis,  Michael:  see  Garden  Ltd 

D'Elci,  Antonio  Maria,  1754-1824  [Angela  Dillon  Bussi  et  al., 
Incunaboli  ed  edizioni  rare:  La  collezione  di  Angela  Maria 
D'Elci  (Florence,  1989)]:  I  16  (H-300) 

Dent,  John,  d.  1826;  aucts.  Evans,  29  Mar.  &  25  Apr.  1827:  I  16 
(H-300) 

Devonshire,  Dukes  of;  Chatsworth  (William  George  Spencer 
Cavendish,  1790-1858,  6th  Duke;  et  al.);  auct.  Christie's,  6 
June  1974  (bkpl.):  II  40  (C-672  +  644:  lot  8) 

Digby,  Kenelm,  Kt.,  1603-1665  (inscn.:  Vacate  et  videte  Kenelme 
Digby)  [DNB]:  II  23  (A- 1431  +  Galen:  Venice.  1521) 

Doheny,  Estelle,  1875-1958,  Los  Angeles,  widow  of  oil  producer 
Edward  L.  Doheny  (1856-1935),  created  papal  countess 
1939,  her  library  given  to  archdiocese  of  Los  Angeles,  its 
incunables  auct.  Christie's  New  York,  22  October  1 987: 1  36 
(T-209),40(T-190) 

Du  Bourg  de  Bozas,  (...)  (bkpl.,  with  motto  or  anagram(?)  Chaix 
d'EstAnge):  II  12  (A-938) 

Duff,  Edward  Gordon,  1863-1924,  Oxford,  Manchester;  eminent 
bibliographer;  auct.  Sotheby's,  17  Mar.  1925:  I  24  (N-176); 
II  68  0-436) 

Dunn,  George,  1865-1912;  of  Woolley  Hall  (nr.  Maidenhead, 
Kent);  aucts.  Soth.,  4  pts.,  1 1  Feb.  1913-22  Nov.  1917:  II  8 
(A-560:  August  1900) 

Eberus,  Johannes  Kudovicus,  d.  by  1670  (see  Ph.  Werner):  II  45 
(E-113) 

Eckher  von  Kapfing,  Johann  Franz,  1649-1727,  Prince-Bishop  of 
Freising  from  1695  (engraved  bookplate):  II  88  (R-22) 

Ehrman,  Albert,  1890-1969,  diamond  merchant;  Broxbourne 
Library,  aucts.  Sotheby's,  I,  14  Nov.  1977;  II,  8  May  1978 
(bkpl.):  II  41  (C-631:  lot  II  632),  43  (C-1010:  lot  II  525), 
57  (H-169:  lot  II  493),  92  (S-321:  lot  II  594),  100  (T-522: 
lot  II  349) 

Elci:  see  d'Elci 

Elst:  see  Van  der  Elst 

Engel,  Samuel,  1702-1784,  librarian  in  Berne;  auct.  ibid.  1743 
(inscn.  7743):  II  39  (C-575) 

Ernest  Augustus,  1771-1835,  5th  son  of  George  III,  King  of 
Hannover  from  1 837:  Fideicommiss  Bibliothek:  I  8  (GW 

5678) 

Finch,  Heneage  Wynne  (inscn.):  II  92  (S-321:  1936) 

Frankowsky,  Antonius  Augustus,  parish  priest  of  Putimy  (Boh.), 
18th  cent,  (inscn.):  II  81  (P-463:  1768) 

Fryenstein,  Petrus  a,  canon  of  Strassburg,  15th  cent,  (inscn):  II  6 
(A-272  +  247:  1473) 


Fiirstenberg,  Hans  /Jean,  1890-1982,  Berlin,  Paris,  Beaumesnil; 
banker,  economist  and  scholarly  book  collector  (label)  [B.  H. 
Breslauer,  The  Book  CollectorWmtet  1982:  427-44]:  I  25 
(N-216);  II  103  (T-554  +  C-923) 

Garden  Ltd,  The,  auct.  Sotheby's  New  York  9-10  November 
1989;  collection  of  Haven  O'More,  'direct  descendant  of 
three  of  the  most  eminent  men  of  all  time'  (afterword),  and 
Michael  Davis:  I  3  (A-973:  lot  15),  16  (H-300:  lot  31),  37 
(T-21 1:  lot  14);  II  45  (E-113:  lot  26),  95  (1-4  +  H-192  +  H- 
179  +  A-1225  +  A-1333  &  1337  +  E-106  +  P-1001  +  G-221 
+  A-1089:lot  12) 

Germanus,  apothecary  in  Strassburg:  see  Nicolaus,  mag. 

Goldwater,  Walter,  NYC  bookdealer,  specialist  in  chess,  Afro- 
Americana,  radical  literature,  longtime  buyer  of  cheap  incun 
ables  (auct.  NYC,  Swann,  I-II,  30  Dec.  1983,  5  Dec.  1985): 
II  36  (B-1043:  lot  I  82),  58  (R-351:  lot  II  119),  87  (P-1096: 
lot  II  108) 

Gribbel,  John,  1858-1936,  of  NYC  and  Philadelphia,  banker; 
aucts.  Parke-Bernet  30  Oct .  1940,  22  Jan.  1941,  etc.  (bkpl.: 
StAustell  Hall):  II  68  Q-436) 

Gundelius,  Philippus,  15/l6thcent.  (inscn.):  I  14  (H-4) 
Hannover,  King  of:  see  Ernest  Augustus 

Harris,  James  Rendel,  1852-1941,  Biblical  scholar,  orientalist 
[DNB]:  see  Birmingham,  Selly  Oak  Colleges 

Hartz,  Raymond  E.  and  Elizabeth,  Bernardsville,  N.J.;  auct. 

Sotheby's  NY,  12  Dec.  1991:  II  39  (C-575:  lot  163);  99  (T- 
520:  lot  197) 

Heathcote,  Robert,  d.1823:  I  16  (H-300) 

Hehn,  Martin,  filius  fabri  ex  Lambaco,  capellanus  in  Gebolzkirchen, 
15th  cent,  (inscn.):  I  26  (N-217,  1483) 

Herbert:  see  Pembroke 

Hewell,  (...)  (bkpl.):  II  62  (H-561) 

Hodson,  Laurence  W,  ofCompton  Hall,  nr  Wolverhampton; 
auct.  Soth.,  3  Dec.  1906  (label):  II  68  (J-436) 

Hoffman,  Samuel  V.  (auct.  Christie's  12  Nov.  1975):  II  10  (A- 
711) 

Honeyman,  Robert  B.,  IV,  collector  of  history  of  science;  aucts. 
Sotheby's,  7  parts,  30  Oct.  1978-19  May  1981:  I  3  (A-973: 
lot  I  140);  II  45  (E-113:  lot  II  970),  61  (H-560:  lot  IV 

1735) 

Hoskier,  H.  C.,  1864-1938,  b.  London,  then  of  South  Orange, 
N.J.;  banker  and  trader;  auct.  Sotheby's,  29  June  1908:  II  36 
(B-1043:  Feb.  1903;  lot  244) 

Huston,  Kenneth  Garth  (bkpl.):  II  23  (A- 1431  +  Galen:  Venice. 
1521) 

Hutchinson,  William,  of  Eggleston:  II  80  (P-456) 


273 


Jacobonius,  Orandius,  ofTerni,  16th  cent.(?)  (inscn.):  II  40  (C- 
672  +  644) 

Jeudwine,  W.  R.  H.  (Wynne),  auct.  Bloomsbury,  pt.  I,  18  Sep. 
1984  (bkpl.):  II  50  (G-415:  lot  14) 

Junod,  Madeleine  and  Rene  (bkpl.):  II  22  (A-1275),  25  (B-350), 
30(8-561) 

Kammerer  von  Worms  (painted  arms),  perhaps  Johannes 

Camerarius  de  Dalburg,  d.  1503,  Bp.  of  Worms  from  1482; 
cf.  also  BPH  I  18  (A-924):  I  2  (A-958) 

Kay,  Arthur,  d.1939,  F.S.A.  Scot!.;  auct.  Sotheby's  29  May  1930 
(bkpl.):  II  8  (A-560) 

Klemperer,  Victor  von,  1876-1943,  Dresden  banker,  Rotarian, 
escapee  from  Nazi  anti-Jewish  persecutions,  d.  in  Southern 
Rhodesia;  auct.  Sotheby's  28  June  1991  :  I  4  (A- 1227),  12 
(G-299);  II  4  (A-236:  lot  376),  20  (A-1217:  lot  583) 

Kloss,  Georg,  M.D.,  1787-1854,  professor  of  medicine, 

Freemason,  Frankfurt/Main;  auct.  Sotheby's,  7  May  1835 
[De  Ricci  (EngL),  1 17]:  I  30  (D-381),  37  (T-21 1);  II  102 
(T-508) 

Kondinos,  Philandreios,  'o  pogonatos',  16/1 7th  cent.  (Greek 
inscn.):  I  2  (A-958) 

Kyber,  Elias,  of  Gengenbach,  16th  cent,  (inscn.):  I  42  (T-229,  ex- 
dono  Veronica  Stutmin,  3  Jan.  1566) 

Lewnpergk,  Bartholomaeus  de,  16th  cent.  [Lemberg/Lvov?]  (gift 
inscn.  to  Sebastianus  Prachaticaenus):  II  81  (P-463:  1581) 

Magliabecchi,  Antonio,  1633-1714,  scholar,  his  library  forms  part 
of  the  Biblioteca  Nazionale  Centrale,  Florence:  116  (H-300) 

Martin,  H.  Bradley,  1906-1980,  NYC,  dir.  of  Bessemer  Trust; 
auct.  Sotheby's  NY,  IX,  14  June  1990):  II  40  (C-672  +  644: 
lot  3349),  60  (H-300:  lot  3355),  93  (W-9:  lot  3354) 

Massa,  Petrus  Antonius  a,  fr.,  Tuscany  (16th  cent.(?)  inscn.):  II  1 1 
(A-761) 

Maucler,  Eugen  (Theodor  Eugen)  von,  Freiherr,  1809-1870,  of 
Schloss  Oberherrlingen  nr.  Ulm;  Wiirttemberg  official, 
diplomat,  emissary  to  Vienna  (bkpl.,  1839):  II  22  (A-1275), 
25  (B-350),  101  (T-527) 

Maximilian,  1832-1867,  Austrian  archduke,  brother  of  Emperor 
Franz  Joseph,  Emperor  of  Mexico  from  1864,  captured  and 
executed  by  rebels  supporting  Benito  Juarez,  19  June  1867; 
see  also  J.  M.  Andrade  (bkpl.):  I  29  (T-168) 

Meyer,  Hans,  1858-1929,  Leipzig,  explorer,  colonial  officer,  pub 
lisher:  II  32  (B-7 17) 

Middendorff,  B.  ofWidenbruge(P),  fl.  1670.  (seejoh.  Oisthaus): 
II  27  (B-389  +  A-237) 

Morris,  William,  1834-1896,  poet,  artist,  socialist,  printer;  his 
library  purchased  en  bloc  by  Richard  Bennett,  1897,  who 
sold  the  books  he  did  not  want  under  the  name  of  Morris, 
Sotheby's  5  Dec.  1896:  II  78  (O-128:  lot  923) 


Moss,  William  E.,  Col.,  1875-1953,  B.A.  Oxon.  (Trinity  Coll.) 
1898,  of  Sonning-on-Thames  (Berks.),  collector  and  student 
of  fine  bindings,  etc.;  auct.  Sotheby's  2  March  1937 
[Strickland  Gibson,  'Colonel  William  E.  Moss',  Bodleian 
Library  Record 5 3  (July  1955)  156-66]:  I  11  (G-236) 

Murray,  Charles  Fairfax  Murray;  auct.  Christie's,  1 8  March  1918 
(et  al.)  [De  Ricci  (EngL),  1 17;  David  B.  Elliott,  Charles 
Fairfax  Murray  (2000)]:  II  41  (C-631:  lot  182) 

Nicolaus,  mag.,  Strassburg,  15th  cent,  (purch.  inscn.:  from  dom. 
Germanus,  apothecary  in  Strassburg):  II  6  (A-272  +  247) 

Norzagaray,  Mateo  de,  Don,  19th  cent.(?)  (label):  II  52  (G-425) 

O'Hagan,  Baron;  auct.  Sotheby's  6  June  1939:  II  21  (A- 12 19:  lot 
566) 

O'More,  Haven:  see  Garden  Ltd 
Odell,A.:II32(B-717) 

Oisthaus,  Johannes,  fl.  1670  (ex-dono  B.  Middendorff):  II  27  (B- 
389  +  A-237:  1670) 

Parrhasius,  Aulus  Janus,  1470-1534,  Naples,  humanist,  biblio 
phile,  his  library  given  to  Ant.  Seripando,  q.v.:  II  43  (C- 
1010) 

Pembroke,  Thomas  Herbert,  8th  Earl,  1656-1733,  of  Wilton 

House,  Wilts.,  Pres.  Royal  Society,  1689/90;  auct.  Sotheby's, 
25  June  1 9 1 4:  II  4 1  (C-63 1 :  lot  67) 

Perrins,  C.  W.  Dyson,  1864-1958,  of  Davenham,  Malvern, 
Worcs.;  auct.  Sotheby's,  I,  17  June  1946  (bkpl.):  II  24  (B- 
119:  lot  36) 

Phillipps,  Thomas,  Bart,  1792-1872,  of  Middle  Hill,  then  of 
Thirlestain  House,  Cheltenham:  I  16  (H-300);  II  99  (T- 
520) 

Phylolaurus,  Franciscus,  de  Castrocorio(?),  15/1 6th  cent., 

Hieronymite  of  Forli,  q.v.  (ad  usum,  1507):  II  11  (A-761) 

Pinelli,  MafFeo,  come,  1736-1785,  state  printer  of  Venice;  aucts. 
London,  [James  Edwards],  2  March  et  sqq.  1789,  1  Feb.  et 
sqq.  1790  [De  Ricci  (EngL),  89]:  I  15  (H-86:  lot  2514) 

Pinelli,  Vincenzo,  kinsman  of  Maffeo  Pinelli:  115  (H-86) 

Plymouth,  Robert  George  Windsor-Clive,  Earl  of  (bkpl.):  II  62 
(H-561) 

Prachaticaenus,  Sebastianus,  fl.  1581  (see  Barth.  de  Lewnpergk): 
II  81  (P-463) 

Priuli  family,  Venice  patricians,  with  illuminated  arms:  II  41  (C- 
631) 

Pruckhain,  Leonardus,  priest  of  Chambstorff(?),  16th  cent. 

(inscn.):  II  95  (1-4  +  H-192  +  H-179  +  A-1225  +  A-1333  & 
1337  +  E-106  +  P-1001  +  G-221  +  A-1089:  1530) 

Radcliffe,  Joseph,  Kt.,  of  Rudding  Park  (bkpl.):  II  27  (B-389  +  A- 

237) 

Radoulesco,  Constantine,  d.  c.1957,  Monte  Carlo  (mor.  label:  CR 
in  circle):  II  60  (H-300) 


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Rattey,  Clifford  C.,  1886-1970;  privately  printed  incunable  cata 
logue,  The  Library  at  Corbyns,  Torquay  (1965)  (bkpl.):  II  50 
(G-415) 

Redgrave,  Gilbert  Richard,  1844-1941,  Muswell  Hill,  London; 
Ratdolt's  bibliographer  (bkpl.):  II  61  (H-560:  13  May  1891) 

Reviczky,  Karoly  Imre  Sandor  de,  Count;  his  library  sold  en  bloc 
to  Earl  Spencer:  II  13  (A-959)? 

Rigola(P),  Joannes  Fidelis,  of  Ancona(?)  (17th  cent.(?)  inscn.):  II 

11  (A-761) 

Ruremund,  Germanus,  Crutched  Friar  of  Hohenbusch,  15th 
cent.:  II  71  (J-289  +  two  15th-cent.  Mss.:  Ruremund  wrote 
both  Mss.,  the  2nd  dated  1490) 

Saks,  John  A.,  1913-1983,  Greenwich,  Conn.;  auct.  Christie's  NY 
1  Oct.  1980):  II  64  (J-216:  lot  122) 

Schefold,  J.  F.,  17th  cent.(?)  (script-form  stamp):  I  12  (G-299) 
Schiller,  Anton:  II  74  (L-205) 

Sch0yen,  Martin,  Norwegian  book  collector;  auct.  Sotheby's  NY 

12  Dec.  1991: 1  35  (T-208);  II  81  (P-463:  lot  33) 

Sears,  George  Edward:  II  32  (B-717) 

Seripandi,  Antonio,  1485-1531,  Neapolitan  humanist,  brother  of 
Card.  Girolamo  Seripando,  owned  an  important  library, 
many  volumes  from  Janus  Parrhasius,  q.v.:  II  43  (C-1010) 

Sexton,  Eric  Hyde  Lord,  F.S.A.,  1902-1980,  of  Philadelphia  / 
Chestnut  Hill;  B.A.  Princeton  1924;  auct.  Christie's  NY,  8 
April  1981:11 72Q-293:  lot  4) 

Spencer:  see  Sunderland 

Spencer,  George  John,  2nd  Earl  Spencer,  1758-1836,  of  Althorp, 
Northants;  M.P.,  ambassador  to  Vienna,  Whig  cabinet  min 
ister,  creator  of 'the  finest  private  library  in  Europe':  II  13 

(A-959) 

Strauss,  Felix,  18th  cent,  (purchase  inscn.):  II  26  (B-427:  1771) 
Stutmin,  Veronica,  fl.  1566:  I  42  (T-229:  see  Elias  Kyber) 

Sunderland,  Charles  Spencer,  3rd  Earl  of,  1674-1722;  Sunderland 
Library,  Blenheim  Palace;  auct.  Sotheby's,  pt.  IV,  6  Nov. 
1882:  II  78  (O-128:  lot  IV  91 1 1) 

Syllanus,  Ludovicus,  fr.,  de  Grimaldo  (inscn.):  II  14  (A-978) 

Terhaarius,  Paulus,  c.  1625/6-1667,  Amsterdam,  prof,  at 

Duisburg,  auct.  Amsterdam  8  Oct.  1667  [D.  E.  Rhodes, 
Studies  in  Early  European  Printing  and  Book  Collecting 
(1983),  258-62]:  1 2  (A-958) 

Torniellus,  Hieronymus,  fr.,  pater,  Hieronymite  of  Forli,  q.v., 
15/1 6th  cent.:  II  11  (A-761) 

Torre  del  Palasciano  (supralibros  on  doublure):  II  1  (A-7) 

Towneley,  Richard,  1628-1707,  ofTowneley,  Lanes,  (bkpl., 
1702):  II  21  (A-1219) 

Tuano,  Stefano,  di  Grosetto,  ?l6th  cent.:  I  43  (T-234) 


Turner,  Cuthbert  Hamilton,  1860-1930;  Dean  Ireland's  Professor 
of  Exegesis,  Oxford  (purch.  inscn.  Paris,  1919):  II  57  (H- 
169) 

Vambre,  Albertus  (17th  cent.(?)  inscn.):  II  11  (A-761) 

Van  der  Elst,  Charles,  d.  1982;  auct.  Monaco,  13  May  1985:  II 
95  (1-4  +  H-192  +  H-179  +  A-1225  +  A-1333  &  1337  +  E- 
106  +  P-1001  +  G-221  +  A-1089:  lot  183) 

Venosta,  Giacomo,  di  Matio,  ?l6th  cent.:  I  43  (T-234) 

Vernon,  George  John  Warren,  1803-1866,  5th  baron,  of  Sudbury 
Hall,  Derby;  auct.  Sotheby's,  10  June  1918  (bkpl.):  II  64  (J- 
216:  lot  300) 

Vickery,  Willis,  1859-1932,  Cleveland,  Oh.,  judge:  II  39  (C-575) 

Volck,  Beat,  of  Strassburg,  with  inscription:  Ego  Beatus  Volck 
Argentinus  depositus  sum  a  domino  baccalaureo  Nicolao 
Textoris  spire nse  Anno  domini  1499  infesto  sancti  Thome  de 
Aquino  ordinis predicatorum:  II  92  (S-321) 

Vowel,  Richard,  fl.  1507-1540,  B.  Theol.  Oxf,  Austin  Canon 
prior  of  Little  Leighs  (Ess.)  and  Walsingham  (Norf.)[N.  R. 
Ker,  Medieval  Libraries  of  Great  Britain,  2nd  ed.  (1964), 
312;  A.  B.  Emden,  BRUO  3.1952]  (inscn.):  II  21  (A-1219) 

Warren:  see  Vernon 

Werner,  Ph.,  fl.  1670  (dono  accepi  a  D.D.  Joh:  Ludov.  Eberi  hered- 
ibusSMay  1670):  II  45  (E-l  13) 

Wilmerding,  Lucius,  1879-1949,  of  NYC  and  Far  Hills,  N.J., 
stock  broker,  former  president  of  the  Grolier  Club;  auct. 
NYC,  Parke-Bernet,  II,  5  March  1951  (bkpl.):  II  95  (1-4  + 
H-192  +  H-179  +  A-1225  +  A-1333  &  1337  +  E-l 06  +  P- 
1001  +  G-221  +  A-1089:  lot  ii.343) 

Windsor-Clive:  see  Plymouth 

Wodhull,  Michael,  1740-1816,  Thenford  (Northants.),  translator 
of  Euripides,  auct.  Sotheby's  1 1  Jan.  1886  [De  Ricci  (Engi), 
81]:  I  15  (H-86;  20 Apr.  1789,  lot  1252) 

Zabriskie,  Christian  A.  (gifts  to  Manhattan  College,  NYC):  II  66 
(J-120) 


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SPECIAL   AUCTIONS    ONLINE      autumn/winter  2001  highlights 


OCT. 


17 


Property  from 
the  Estate  of 
Mildred  H.  Boink, 
Evansville,  Indiana 


OCT. 


24 -MOV  14 


Frederic,  Lord  Leighton,  P.P. A. 

The  Misses  Stewart  Hodgson 

oil  on  canvas 

121.6  by  105.4cm. 

Offered  by  Ken  Farmer  Auctions* 

ESTIMATE:  $200,000  -  300,000 

STARTING  BID:  $140,000 


Australia  Online:  Art, 
Antiques  and  the  Antipodes 

Rover  Thomas, 
(Australian  c.1926-  1998) 
Wing-Viga  Country 

ochre  and  binder  on  canvas 

100  by  80cm. 

Offered  by  Lauraine  Diggins  Fine  Art* 

ESTIMATE:  $20,000  -  40,000 


NOV. 


1-15 


Vienna  1900 


Glass  Vase 

Johann  Loetz  Witwe 

Height  16.5  cm. 

Offered  by  Kunsthandel  Patrick  Ko 

ESTIMATE:  $13,000  - 15,000 

STARTING  BID:  $10,000 


NOV. 


R.1R 


London  Asia  Week 
Online 


MDV 


1  5  -  nrr   6 


NOV. 


Modern  British  and  Irish  Art 


The  Art  of  the 
Silversmith 


Duncan  Grant  (1885-1978) 
Brighton 

signed  and  dated  1952 

oil  on  canvas 

50.8  by  6 1cm 

Offered  by  Vincent  and  Louise 

Kosman* 

ESTIMATE:  $10,000  - 13,000 

STARTING  BID:  $9,500 


OFC. 


Holiday  Cufflinks 
and  Dress  Sets 


NOV. 


Holiday  Watches 


The  Gentleman's  Club 


30-nFr.  10 


Nepalese  Gilt  Bronze  Figure  of  Indra 

1 6th  Century 

Offered  by  David  Kenny  Oriental  Art* 

ESTIMATE:  $6,000  -  8,000 


Holiday  Glamour: 
Vintage  Fashions 
&  Costume  Jewellery 


Sculptural 

Black  Velvet  Dress 

circa  1980 
Anthony  Price 
Offered  by  Cherry* 
ESTIMATE:  $500  -  600 
STARTING  BID:  $450 

Simulated  Gemstone 
Brooch 

Kenneth  Jay  Lane 
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In  certain  circumstances,  Sotheby's  may  print 
in  the  catalogue  the  history  of  ownership  of  a 
work  of  art  if  such  information  contributes  to 
scholarship  or  is  otherwise  well  known  and 
assists  in  distinguishing  the  work  of  art. 
However,  the  identity  of  the  seller  or  previous 
owners  may  not  be  disclosed  for  a  variety  of 
reasons.  For  example,  such  information  may 
be  excluded  to  accommodate  a  seller's  request 
for  confidentiality  or  because  the  identity  of 
prior  owners  is  unknown  given  the  age  of  the 
work  of  art. 

Buyer's  Premium 

For  Books  the  buyer's  premium  payable  by  the 
buyer  of  each  lot  is  at  a  rate  of  17.5%  on  the 
first  £10,000  of  the  hammer  price,  15%  on 
the  next  £50,000  of  the  hammer  price  up  to 
and  including  £60,000,  and  at  a  rate  of  10% 
on  the  amount  by  which  the  hammer  price 
exceeds  £60,000. 

VAT 

Value  Added  Tax  (VAT)  may  be  payable  on 
the  hammer  price  and/or  the  buyer's 
premium.  Buyer's  premium  may  attract  a 
charge  in  lieu  of  VAT.  Please  read  carefully  the 
"VAT  INFORMATION  FOR  BUYERS"  in 
this  catalogue. 

1 .    Before  the  Auction 
Catalogue  Subscriptions 

If  you  would  like  to  take  out  a  catalogue 
subscription,  please  ring  020  7293  6410. 

Pre-sale  Estimates 

Pre-sale  estimates  are  intended  as  a  guide  for 
prospective  buyers.  Any  bid  between  the  high 
and  low  pre-sale  estimates  would,  in  our 
opinion,  offer  a  chance  of  success.  However, 
all  lots  can  realise  prices  above  or  below  the 
pre-sale  estimates. 


It  is  advisable  to  consult  us  nearer  the 
time  of  sale  as  estimates  can  be  subject  to 
revision.  The  estimates  printed  in  the  auction 
catalogue  do  not  include  the  buyer's  premium 
or  VAT. 

Pre-sale  Estimates 

in  US  Dollars  and  Euros 

Although  the  sale  is  conducted  in  pounds 
sterling,  the  pre-sale  estimates  in  some 
catalogues  are  also  printed  in  US  dollars 
and/or  Euros.  The  rate  of  exchange  is  the  rate 
at  the  time  of  production  of  this  catalogue. 
Therefore,  you  should  treat  the  estimates  in 
US  dollars  or  Euros  as  a  guide  only. 

Condition  of  Lots 

Prospective  buyers  are  encouraged  to  inspect 
the  property  at  the  pre-sale  exhibitions.  Solely 
as  a  convenience,  Sotheby's  may  provide 
condition  reports.  The  absence  of  reference  to 
the  condition  of  a  lot  in  the  catalogue 
description  does  not  imply  that  the  lot  is  free 
from  faults  or  imperfections.  Please  refer  to 
Condition  3  of  the  Conditions  of  Business  for 
Buyers. 

2.    Bidding  in  the  Sale 
Bidding  at  Auction 

Bids  may  be  executed  in  person  by  paddle 
during  the  auction,  in  writing  prior  to  the  sale 
or  by  telephone. 

Auction  speeds  vary,  but  average  between 
50  and  120  lots  per  hour.  The  bidding  steps 
are  generally  in  increments  of  approximately 
1 0%  of  the  previous  bid. 

Please  refer  to  Conditions  5  and  6  of  the 
Conditions  of  Business  for  Buyers. 

Bidding  in  Person 

To  bid  in  person,  you  will  need  to  register  for 
and  collect  a  numbered  paddle  before  the 
auction  begins.  Proof  of  identity  will  be 
required.  If  you  have  a  Sotheby's  Identification 
Card,  it  will  facilitate  the  registration  process. 
If  you  are  an  existing  client  and  do  not  have  a 
card  but  would  like  one  please  contact  the 
Bids  department  on  020  7293  5336. 

Should  you  be  the  successful  buyer  of  a 
lot,  please  ensure  that  your  paddle  can  be  seen 
by  the  auctioneer  and  that  it  is  your  number 
that  is  called  out.  Should  there  be  any  doubts 


as  to  price  or  buyer,  please  draw  the 
auctioneer's  attention  to  it  immediately. 

All  lots  sold  will  be  invoiced  to  the  name 
and  address  in  which  the  paddle  has  been 
registered  and  cannot  be  transferred  to  other 
names  and  addresses. 

Please  do  not  mislay  your  paddle;  in  the 
event  of  loss,  inform  the  Sales  Clerk 
immediately.  At  the  end  of  the  sale,  please 
return  your  paddle  to  the  registration  desk. 

Absentee  Bids 

If  you  cannot  attend  the  auction,  we  will  be 
happy  to  execute  written  bids  on  your  behalf. 
A  bidding  form  can  be  found  at  the  back  of 
this  catalogue.  This  service  is  free  and 
confidential.  Lots  will  always  be  bought  as 
cheaply  as  is  consistent  with  other  bids,  the 
reserves  and  Sotheby's  commissions.  In  the 
event  of  identical  bids,  the  earliest  received 
will  take  precedence.  Always  indicate  a  "top 
limit"  -  the  hammer  price  to  which  you  would 
bid  if  you  were  attending  the  auction  yourself. 
"Buy"  and  unlimited  bids  will  not  be 
accepted.  Please  refer  to  Condition  5  of  the 
Conditions  of  Business  for  Buyers. 

Telephoned  absentee  bids  must  be 
confirmed  before  the  sale  by  letter  or  fax.  Fax 
number  for  bids  only:  020  7293  6255. 

To  ensure  a  satisfactory  service,  please 
ensure  that  we  receive  your  bids  at  least  24 
hours  before  the  sale. 

Bidding  by  Telephone 

If  you  cannot  attend  the  auction,  it  is  possible 
to  bid  on  the  telephone  on  lots  with  a 
minimum  low  estimate  of  £1,000.  As  the 
number  of  telephone  lines  is  limited,  it  is 
necessary  to  make  arrangements  for  this 
service  24  hours  before  the  sale. 

We  also  suggest  that  you  leave  a 
maximum  bid  which  we  can  execute  on  your 
behalf  in  the  event  we  are  unable  to  reach  you 
by  telephone.  Multi-lingual  staff  are  available 
to  execute  bids  for  you.  Please  refer  to 
Condition  5  of  the  Conditions  of  Business  for 
Buyers. 

Employee  Bidding 

Sotheby's  employees  may  bid  only  if  the 
employee  does  not  know  the  reserve  and  fully 
complies  with  Sotheby's  internal  rules 
governing  employee  bidding. 


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UN  Embargo  on  trade  with  Iraq 

The  United  Nations  trade  embargo  prohibits 
us  from  accepting  bids  from  any  person  in 
Iraq  (including  any  body  controlled  by  Iraqi 
residents  or  companies,  wherever  carrying  on 
business),  or  from  any  other  person  where  we 
have  reasonable  cause  to  believe  (i)  that  the 
lot(s)  will  be  supplied  or  delivered  to  or  to  the 
order  of  a  person  in  Iraq  or  (ii)  that  the  lot(s) 
will  be  used  for  the  purposes  of  any  business 
carried  on  in  or  operated  from  Iraq. 
Acceptance  of  bids  by  the  auctioneer  is  subject 
to  this  prohibition. 

For  further  details,  please  contact  a 
member  of  the  Specialist  department  or  the 
Legal  department  PRIOR  to  bidding. 

3.  The  Auction 
Conditions  of  Business 

The  auction  is  governed  by  the  Conditions  of 
Business  and  Authenticity  Guarantee  for 
Books.  These  apply  to  all  aspects  of  the 
relationship  between  Sotheby's  and  actual  and 
prospective  bidders  and  buyers.  Anyone 
considering  bidding  in  the  auction  should 
read  them  carefully.  They  may  be  amended  by 
way  of  notices  posted  in  the  saleroom  or  by 
way  of  announcement  made  by  the 
auctioneer. 

Consecutive  and 
Responsive  Bidding 

The  auctioneer  may  open  the  bidding  on  any 
lot  by  placing  a  bid  on  behalf  of  the  seller.  The 
auctioneer  may  further  bid  on  behalf  of  the 
seller,  up  to  the  amount  of  the  reserve,  by 
placing  consecutive  or  responsive  bids  for  a 
lot.  Please  refer  to  Condition  6  of  the 
Conditions  of  Business  for  Buyers. 

4.  After  the  Auction 
Payment 

Payment  is  due  immediately  after  the  sale  and 
may  be  made  by  the  following  methods: 
Sterling  Cash,  Sterling  Bankers  Draft, 
Sterling  Travellers  Cheques,  Sterling  Cheque, 
Wire  Transfer  in  Sterling,  Credit  Card  (Visa, 
Mastercard  &  Eurocard),  Debit  Card  (Delta, 
Connect  &  Switch). 


It  is  against  Sotheby's  general  policy  to 
accept  single  or  multiple  related  payments  in 
the  form  of  cash  or  cash  equivalents  in  excess 
of  the  local  currency  equivalent  of 
US$10,000.  It  is  Sotheby's  policy  to  request 
any  new  clients  or  purchasers  preferring  to 
make  a  cash  payment  to  provide  verification 
of  identity  (by  providing  some  form  of 
government  issued  identification  containing 
a  photograph,  such  as  a  passport,  identity 
card  or  driver's  licence),  confirmation  of 
permanent  address  and  identification  of  the 
source  of  the  funds.   Thank  you  for  your  co 
operation. 

Cheques  and  drafts  should  be  made  payable  to 
Sotheby's.  Although  personal  and  company 
cheques  drawn  in  Sterling  on  UK  banks  are 
accepted,  you  are  advised  that  property  will 
not  be  released  until  such  cheques  have  cleared 
unless  you  have  a  pre-arranged  Cheque 
Acceptance  Facility.  Forms  to  facilitate  this 
are  available  from  cashiers. 
Bank  transfers  should  be  made  to: 
Barclays  Bank  pic 
50  Pall  Mall 
London  SWIA  1QA 
Account  name: 
Sotheby's  Client  Receipts 
Account  No.  60163058 
Sort  Code:  20-67-59 

Please  include  your  name,  Sotheby's 
account  number  and  invoice  number  with 
your  instructions  to  your  bank. 

Payment  by  Mastercard,  Visa  and  Eurocard 
will  be  subject  to  a  1.5%  administrative  fee. 
Payments  exceeding  £20,000  can  only  be 
made  by  the  card  holder  in  person.  For 
absentee  payments  below  £20,000  please 
contact  cashiers  on  020  7293  5220. 

The  Conditions  of  Business  require  buyers  to 
pay  immediately  for  their  purchases.  However, 
in  limited  circumstances  and  with  the  seller's 
agreement,  Sotheby's  may  offer  buyers  it 
deems  credit  worthy  the  option  of  paying  for 
their  purchases  on  an  extended  payment  term 
basis.  Generally  credit  terms  must  be  arranged 
prior  to  the  sale.  In  advance  of  determining 
whether  to  grant  the  extended  payment  terms, 
Sotheby's  may  require  credit  references  and 
proof  of  identity  and  residence. 


Collection 

Lots  will  be  released  to  you  or  your  authorised 
representative  when  full  and  cleared  payment 
has  been  received  by  Sotheby's  and  a  release 
note  has  been  produced  by  our  Cashiers  at 
New  Bond  Street,  who  are  open  Monday  to 
Friday,  9  am  to  5.30  pm. 

Smaller  items  can  be  collected  from  the 
Packing  Room  at  New  Bond  Street,  large 
items  will  be  sent  to  Sotheby's  Kings  House 
Warehouse. 

If  you  are  in  any  doubt  about  the  location 
of  your  purchases,  please  contact  the  Sale 
Administrator  prior  to  arranging  collection. 
Removal,  interest,  storage  and  handling  charges 
will  be  levied  on  uncollected  lots.  Please  refer  to 
Conditions  7,  8  and  9  of  the  Conditions  of 
Business  for  Buyers. 

Storage  Charges 

Storage  and  handling  charges  plus  VAT  may 
apply.  Please  refer  to  Condition  9  of  the 
Conditions  of  Business  for  Buyers. 

Insurance 

Buyers  are  reminded  that  lots  are  only  insured 
for  a  maximum  of  five  (5)  working  days  after 
the  day  of  the  auction.  Please  refer  to 
Condition  7  of  the  Conditions  of  Business  for 
Buyers. 

Shipping 

Sotheby's  Shipping  Logistics  can  advise  buyers 
on  exporting  and  shipping  property.  Our 
office  is  open  between  the  hours  of  9.00am 
and  5.30pm  and  you  can  contact  the  Shipping 
advisor  on  the  number  set  out  in  the  front  of 
this  catalogue. 

Purchases  will  be  despatched  as  soon  as 
possible  upon  clearance  from  the  Accounts 
department  and  receipt  of  your  written 
despatch  instructions  and  of  any  export 
licence  or  certificates  that  may  be  required. 
Despatch  will  be  arranged  at  the  buyer's 
expense.  Sotheby's  may  receive  a  fee  for  its 
own  account  from  the  agent  arranging  the 
despatch.  Estimates  and  information  on  all 
methods  can  be  provided  upon  request  and 
enquiries  should  be  marked  for  the  attention 
of  Sotheby's  Shipping  Logistics  and  faxed  to 
020  7293  5952. 


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Transit  insurance  will  be  arranged  unless 
otherwise  specified  in  writing  and  will  be  at 
the  buyer's  expense.  All  shipments  should  be 
unpacked  and  checked  on  delivery  and  any 
discrepancies  notified  to  the  transit  insurer  or 
shipper  immediately. 

A  form  to  provide  shipping  instructions 
is  printed  on  the  reverse  of  the  bid  slip  in  this 
catalogue  or  on  the  back  of  your  buyers 
invoice. 

Export 

The  export  of  any  lot  from  the  UK  or  import 
into  any  other  country  may  be  subject  to  one 
or  more  export  or  import  licences  being 
granted.  It  is  the  buyer's  responsibility  to 
obtain  any  relevant  export  or  import  licence. 
The  denial  of  any  licence  required  or  delay  in 
obtaining  such  licence  cannot  justify  the 
cancellation  of  the  sale  or  any  delay  in  making 
payment  of  the  total  amount  due. 

Sotheby's,  upon  request  and  for  an 
administrative  fee,  may  apply  for  a  licence  to 
export  your  lot(s)  outside  the  UK. 

An  EU  Licence  is  necessary  to  export  from 
the  European  Community  cultural  goods 
subject  to  the  EU  Regulation  on  the  export  of 
cultural  property  (EEC  No.  391 1/92,  Official 
Journal  No.  L395  of '31/12/92. 

A  UK  Licence  is,  necessary  to  move  from 
the  UK  to  another  Member  State  of  the  EU 
cultural  goods  valued  at  or  above  the  relevant 
UK  licence  limit.  A  UK  Licence  may  also  be 
necessary  to  export  outside  the  European 
Community  cultural  goods  valued  at  or  above 
the  relevant  UK  licence  limit  but  below  the 
EU  Licence  limit. 

The  following  is  a  selection  of  some  of 
the  categories  and  a  summary  of  the  limits 
above  which  either  an  EU  or  a  UK  licence 
may  be  required  for  items  more  than  50  years 
old- 
Paintings  in  oil  or  tempera  £1 19,000 
Watercolours  £23,800 
Prints,  Drawings  &  Engravings  £1 1,900 
British  Historical  Portraits  £6,000 
Photographs  £6,000 
Arms  and  Armour                                 £20,000 
Textiles  £6,000 
Printed  Maps                                         £11,900 
Books                                                 £39,600 
Any  Other  Objects                                £39,600 


Manuscripts/Archives/Scale  Drawings 
Archaeological  items 

(*  a  licence  will  be  required  in  most  instances, 
irrespective  of  value) 

Export  to  Italy 

Buyers  intending  to  export  their  purchases  to 
Italy  under  an  Italian  Temporary  Cultural 
Import  Licence  are  advised  that  the  Italian 
authorities  will  require  evidence  of  export 
from  the  UK.  Please  contact  Sotheby's 
Shipping  Representative  or  your  own  shipping 
agent  prior  to  the  export  for  more 
information. 

Endangered  Species 

Items  made  of  or  incorporating  plant  or 
animal  material,  such  as  coral,  crocodile,  ivory, 
whalebone,  tortoiseshell,  etc.,  irrespective  of 
age  or  value,  may  require  a  license  or 
certificate  prior  to  exportation  and  require 
additional  licenses  or  certificates  upon 
importation  to  any  country  outside  the  EU. 
Sotheby's  suggests  that  buyers  check  with  their 
own  government  regarding  wildlife  import 
requirements  prior  to  placing  a  bid.  Please 
note  that  the  ability  to  obtain  an  export 
license  or  certificate  does  not  ensure  the  ability 
to  obtain  an  import  license  or  certificate  in 
another  country,  and  vice  versa.  It  is  the 
buyer's  responsibility  to  obtain  any  export  or 
import  licenses  and/or  certificates  as  well  as 
any  other  required  documentation  (see 
Condition  10  of  the  Conditions  of  Business 
for  Buyers). 

5.    Additional  Services 
Financial  Services 

Sotheby's  Financial  Services  makes  loans  to 
clients  of  Sotheby's.  These  include  loans 
secured  by  property  consigned  for  sale  and 
loans  secured  by  art  collections  which  are  not 
intended  for  sale.  It  is  Sotheby's  Financial 
Services'  general  policy  to  lend  no  more  than 
40%  of  the  total  of  its  low  auction  estimates 
for  such  property.  It  is  also  general  policy  that 
the  minimum  loan  for  consignor  advances  is 
£25,001  (in  the  US  $50,000)  and  for  secured 
loans  is  £500,000  (in  the  US  $1,000,000).  For 
further  information  please  call  Sotheby's 
Financial  Services  in  New  York  at  (1-212)  508 


8061,  or  in  London  at  (44)  20  7293  5273. 
This  is  not  an  offer  or  solicitation.  The 
services  described  are  subject  to  the  laws  and 
regulations  of  the  jurisdiction  in  which  any 
services  may  be  provided. 

Pre-sale  auction  estimates 

Sotheby's  will  be  pleased  to  give  preliminary 
pre-sale  auction  estimates  for  your  property. 
This  service  is  free  of  charge  and  is  available 
from  Sotheby's  experts  in  New  Bond  Street  on 
week  days  between  9  am  and  4.30  pm.  We 
advise  you  to  make  an  appointment  with  the 
relevant  expert  department.  Upon  request,  we 
may  also  travel  to  your  home  to  provide 
preliminary  pre-sale  auction  estimates. 

Valuations 

The  Valuation  department  provides  written 
inventories  and  valuations  throughout  Europe 
for  many  purposes  including  insurance, 
probate  and  succession,  asset  management  and 
tax  planning.  Valuations  can  be  tailored  to  suit 
most  needs.  Fees  are  highly  competitive.  For 
further  information  please  contact  the 
Valuation  department  on  020  7293 
5177/5082,  fax  020  7293  5957. 

Tax  and  Heritage  Advice 

Our  Tax  and  Heritage  department  provides 
advice  on  the  tax  implications  of  sales  and 
related  legal  and  heritage  issues.  It  can  also 
assist  in  private  treaty  sales,  on  transfers  in  lieu 
of  taxation,  on  the  obtaining  of  conditional 
exemption  from  tax  and  on  UK  export  issues. 
For  further  information,  please  contact  the 
Tax  and  Heritage  department  on  020  7293 
5082,  fax  020  7293  5965. 


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Consignors  Information 

Furniture,  Longcase  Clocks,  large  Works  of  Art, 

Carpets,  Rugs,  Tapestries  and  large  Musical 

Instruments 

Consignments  mentioned  in  the  above  should 

be  delivered  to  Sotheby's  Kings  House. 

By  appointment  telephone  020  8232  5600. 

Opening  hours  Monday  to  Friday  8.30am  to 

4.30pm,  Saturdays  8.30am  to  1 1 .30am.  Please 

arrive  at  least  half  an  hour  before  closing. 

Small  items  including  Pictures,  Ceramics,  Silver 
and  small  Works  of  Art 
Delivery  in  person  between  9.00am  and 
4.30pm  for  all  Wl  locations. 

Paintings  and  Books 

1-2  St.  George  Street,  London,  W1A  2AA 

Ceramics,  Silver,  Jewellery,  small  Works  of  Art 
and  Oriental  and  Islamic  Works  of  Art 
6-7  St.  George  Street,  London,  W1A  2AA 

Collectables,  small  Musical  Instruments,  Clocks 
and  Watches,  Wine,  Stamps  and  Coins 
Aeolian  Hall,  Bloomfield  Place,  London 
W1A2AA 

Delivery  by  Courier  or  Shipping  Agent 

When  instructing  a  Courier  or  Shipper  to 
deliver  items  to  Sotheby's,  address  your 


property  to  the  Arrivals  Department, 
1-2  St.  George  Street,  London,  W1A  2AA. 
Consignments  sent  by  this  method  must  be 
packed  appropriately  and  clearly  labelled  with 
the  owners  name,  address,  telephone  numbers, 
Sotheby's  Client  Account  Number,  (if  known) 
and  necessary  licences  from  the  country  of 
export.  Contact  Sotheby's  Shipping 
Department  on  020  7293  5357  for  further 
information. 

To  avoid  delay  ensure  3  days  notice  is  given 
along  with  full  consignment  details. 

Collection 

Purchasers  wishing  to  collect  lots  from  Kings 
House  must  ensure  that  their  payment  has 
been  cleared  prior  to  collection  and  that  a 
release  note  has  been  forwarded  to  the 
warehouse  by  the  cashiers  at  Sotheby's  New 
Bond  Street.  Buyers  who  have  established 
credit  arrangements  with  Sotheby's  may 
collect  purchases  prior  to  payment,  although  a 
release  note  is  still  required  from  the  cashiers 
as  above.  Please  note  that  the  cashiers 
department  is  not  open  on  Saturdays.  Lots 
will  be  released  only  if  full  payment  has  been 
received  together  with  settlement  of  any 
removal,  interest,  handling  and  storage 
charges  thereon.  Handling  and  storage 


charges  plus  VAT  for  all  purchase  lots  sent  to 
Sotheby's  Kings  House  will  apply  two  weeks 
after  the  sale  date  at  the  following  rates: 
Handling  Charge:  £20  plus  VAT  per  lot 
Storage  Charge:  £21  plus  VAT  per  lot  per 
week  or  part  thereof. 

Payments  should  be  made  to  Sotheby's  at 
Kings  House. 

Route  Guidance 

From  Bond  Street  to  Hyde  Park  Corner  take 
the  Knightsbridge  Road  leading  into 
Brompton  Road  then  the  Cromwell  Road. 
Over  the  Hammersmith  Flyover  onto  the 
Great  West  Road.  At  the  Hogarth 
Roundabout  take  the  Hogarth  Road  to 
Chiswick.  Follow  the  A4  route  from  slip  road 
round  the  Chiswick  Roundabout  and  take  the 
second  turning  on  the  left.  Follow  the  A4  past 
Capital  Interchange  on  your  left  and  take  next 
left  down  the  ramp  signed  Sotheby's.  Kings 
House  is  situated  adjacent  to  the  DHL 
Building. 

Kings  House  Warehouse 

Paul  Dennis  and  Salim  Hasham 
Telephone:  020  8232  5600 
Fax:  020  8232  5625 

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VAT  INFORMATION  FOR  BUYERS  AT  BOOK  SALES 


The  following  paragraphs  are 
intended  to  give  guidance  to  buyers 
on  the  VAT  implications  of 
purchasing  at  Sotheby's  book 
department  sales.  The  information 
concerns  the  most  usual 
circumstances  (arising  from  the  VAT 
rules  introduced  on  1  June  1995)  and 
is  not  intended  to  be  complete.  In  all 
cases  the  UK  VAT  legislation  takes 
precedence  and  the  VAT  rates  in 
effect  on  the  day  of  the  auction  will 
be  the  rates  charged.  It  should  be 
noted  that,  for  VAT  purposes  only, 
Sotheby's  is  not  usually  treated  as  an 
agent  and  most  property  is  sold  as  if 
it  is  the  property  of  Sotheby's. 

In  the  following  paragraphs, 
reference  to  VAT  symbols  shall  mean 
those  symbols  located  beside  the  lot 
number  or  the  pre-sale  estimates  in 
the  catalogue  (or  amending  sale 
room  notice). 


1 .  Property  with  no  VAT  symbol 

Where  there  is  no  VAT  symbol  the  property  is 
free  from  VAT  and  Sotheby's  will  not  charge 
VAT  on  either  the  hammer  price  or  the  buyer's 
premium. 

2.  Property  with  a  #  symbol 

Although  these  items  are  not  free  from  VAT, 
Sotheby's  is  able  to  use  the  Auctioneer's 
Margin  Scheme  and  VAT  will  not  normally  be 
charged  on  the  hammer  price. 

Sotheby's  must  bear  VAT  on  the  buyer's 
premium  and  hence  will  charge  an  amount  in 
lieu  of  VAT  at  17.5%  on  this  premium.  This 
amount  will  form  part  of  the  buyer's  premium 
on  our  invoice  and  will  not  be  separately 
identified. 

Please  see  'Exports  from  the  European 
Union'  for  the  conditions  to  be  fulfilled  before 
the  amount  in  lieu  of  VAT  in  the  buyer's 
premium  may  be  cancelled  or  refunded. 

(VAT-registered  buyers  from  within  the 
European  Union  (EU)  should  note  that  the 
amount  in  lieu  of  VAT  contained  within  the 
buyer's  premium  cannot  be  cancelled  or 
refunded  by  Sotheby's  or  HM  Customs  & 
Excise.) 

(VAT-registered  buyers  from  within  the 
EU  requiring  an  invoice  under  the  normal 
VAT  rules,  instead  of  a  margin  scheme 
invoice,  should  notify  the  Cashier's  Office  or 
the  Client  Accounts  Department  on  the  day 
of  the  auction  and  an  invoice  with  VAT  on  the 
hammer  price  will  be  raised.  Buyers  requiring 
reinvoicing  under  the  normal  VAT  rules 
subsequent  to  a  margin  scheme  invoice  having 
been  raised  should  contact  the  Client 
Accounts  Department  for  assistance.) 

3.  Property  with  a  t  symbol 

These  items  are  standard-rated  and  will  be 
sold  under  the  normal  UK  VAT  rules.  Both 
the  hammer  price  and  buyer's  premium  will 
be  subject  to  VAT  at  17.5%. 

Please  see  'Exports  from  the  European 
Union'  for  the  conditions  to  be  fulfilled  before 
the  VAT  charged  on  the  hammer  price  may  be 
cancelled  or  refunded.  Sotheby's  must  always 
charge  VAT  on  the  buyer's  premium  for  these 
lots  and  will  neither  cancel  nor  refund  the 
VAT  charged. 

(VAT-registered  buyers  from  other 


European  Union  (EU)  countries  may  have  the 
VAT  on  the  hammer  price  cancelled  or 
refunded  if  they  provide  Sotheby's  with  their 
VAT  registration  number  and  evidence  that 
the  property  has  been  removed  from  the  UK 
within  three  months  of  the  date  of  sale.  A 
form  is  available  from  the  Cashier's  Office 
which  will  act  as  such  evidence  once 
completed  by  the  buyer  or  the  buyer's  agent. 
If  the  shipping  is  undertaken  by  Sotheby's,  no 
such  form  will  be  required.) 

(All  business  buyers  from  outside  the  UK 
should  refer  to  'VAT  Refunds  from  HM 
Customs  &  Excise'  for  information  on  how  to 
recover  VAT  incurred  on  the  buyer's 
premium.) 

4.  Property  with  a  a  symbol 

Items  sold  to  buyers  whose  address  is  in  the 
European  Union  (EU)  will  be  assumed  to  be 
remaining  in  the  EU.  The  property  will  be 
invoiced  as  if  it  had  a  #  symbol  (see  'Property 
with  a  #  symbol'  above).  However,  if  the 
property  is  to  be  exported  from  the  EU, 
Sotheby's  will  re-invoice  the  property  under 
the  normal  VAT  rules  (see  'Property  sold  with 
a  f  symbol'  above)  as  requested  by  the  seller. 

Items  sold  to  buyers  whose  address  is 
outside  the  European  Union  (EU)  will  be 
assumed  to  be  exported  from  the  EU.  The 
property  will  be  invoiced  under  the  normal 
VAT  rules  (see  'Property  sold  with  a  t  symbol' 
above).  Although  the  hammer  price  will  be 
subject  to  VAT  this  will  be  cancelled  or 
refunded  upon  export  -  see  'Exports  from  the 
European  Union'.  The  buyer's  premium  will 
always  attract  VAT.  However,  buyers  who  are 
not  intending  to  export  their  property  from 
the  EU  should  notify  our  Client  Accounts 
Department  on  the  day  of  the  sale  and  the 
property  will  be  re-invoiced  showing  no  VAT 
on  the  hammer  price  (see  'Property  sold  with 
a  #  symbol'  above) . 

5.  Property  sold  with  a  *  or  Q 
symbol 

These  items  have  been  imported  from  outside 
the  European  Union  (EU)  to  be  sold  at 
auction  under  temporary  importation.  When 
Sotheby's  releases  such  property  to  buyers  in 
the  UK,  the  buyer  will  become  the  importer 
and  must  pay  Sotheby's  import  VAT  at  the 


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following  rates  on  both  the  hammer  price  and 
buyer's  premium: 

t  -  5% 

Q-  17.5% 

Buyers  intending  to  take  their  purchased 
property  out  of  the  EU  should  see  'Exports 
from  the  European  Union'. 

(VAT-registered  buyers  from  the  EU 
should  note  that  the  import  VAT  charged  on 
property  released  in  the  UK  cannot  be 
cancelled  or  refunded  by  Sotheby's.) 

(VAT-registered  buyers  from  the  UK 
should  note  that  the  invoice  issued  by 
Sotheby's  for  these  items  is  not  suitable 
evidence  for  VAT  return  purposes.  You 
should  confirm  with  the  Shipping 
Department  that  Sotheby's  has  a  record  of 
your  VAT  registration  number  and  wait  for  a 
certificate  C79  to  be  issued  by  HM  Customs 
&  Excise.) 

(VAT-registered  buyers  from  other  EU 
countries  may  be  able  to  seek  repayment  of 
the  import  VAT  paid  by  applying  to  HM 
Customs  &  Excise  with  a  copy  of  the  C88 
import  declaration  available  from  the 
Shipping  Department  -  see  'VAT  Refunds 
from  HM  Customs  &  Excise'.) 

6.     Exports  from  the  European  Union 

The  following  types  of  VAT  may  be  cancelled 
or  refunded  by  Sotheby's  on  exports  made 
within  three  months  of  the  sale  date  if  strict 
conditions  are  met: 

-  the  amount  in  lieu  of  VAT  charged  on 
buyer's  premium  for  property  sold  under  the 
margin  scheme  i.e.  with  a  #  symbol  or  a  a 
symbol. 

-  the  VAT  on  the  hammer  price  for 
property  sold  under  the  normal  VAT  rules  i.e. 
with  a  t  symbol  or  a  a  symbol. 

-  the  import  VAT  charged  on  hammer 
price  and  buyer's  premium  for  property  sold 
under  temporary  importation  i.e.  with  a  t  or  a 
£2  symbol. 

In  each  of  the  above  examples,  where  the 
appropriate  conditions  are  satisfied,  no  VAT 
will  be  charged  if,  at  or  before  the  time  of 
invoicing,  the  buyer  instructs  Sotheby's  to 
export  the  property  from  the  EU.  If  such 
instruction  is  received  after  payment,  a  refund 
of  the  VAT  amount  will  be  made.   If  a  buyer 
later  decides  not  to  use  Sotheby's  shipping 


services  a  revised  invoice  will  be  raised 
charging  VAT. 

Where  the  buyer  carries  purchases  from 
the  EU  personally  or  uses  the  services  of 
another  shipper,  Sotheby's  will  charge  the  VAT 
amount  due  as  a  deposit  and  refund  it  if  the 
lot  has  been  exported  within  three  months  of 
the  date  of  sale  and  the  following  conditions 
are  met: 

-  For  lots  sold  under  the  margin  scheme 
(#  symbol)  or  the  normal  VAT  rules  (t 
symbol),  Sotheby's  is  provided  with 
appropriate  documentary  proof  of  export 
from  the  EU.  Buyers  carrying  their  own 
property  should  obtain  hand-carry  papers 
from  the  Shipping  Department  to  facilitate 
this  process. 

-  For  lots  sold  under  temporary 
importation  (t  or  Q  symbols),  Sotheby's  is 
provided  with  a  copy  of  the  correct  paperwork 
duly  completed  and  stamped  by  HM  Customs 
&  Excise.  It  is  essential  for  shippers  acting  on 
behalf  of  buyers  to  collect  copies  of  the 
original  import  papers  from  our  Shipping 
Department.  Buyers  carrying  their  own 
property  must  obtain  hand-carry  papers  from 
the  Shipping  Department. 

Once  the  appropriate  paperwork  has 
been  returned  to  Sotheby's,  a  refund  of  the 
VAT  charge  will  be  made.  Please  note,  an 
administrative  fee  of  £20.00  will  be  charged 
for  this  service. 

Sotheby's  is  not  able  to  cancel  or  refund 
any  VAT  charged  on  sales  made  to  UK  or  EU 
private  residents  unless  the  lot  is  subject  to 
temporary  importation  and  the  property  is 
exported  from  the  EU  within  three  months  of 
the  date  of  sale. 

Buyers  intending  to  export  lots  under 
temporary  importation  ($  or  Q  symbols) 
should  notify  the  Shipping  Department 
before  collection.  Failure  to  do  so  may  result 
in  the  crystallisation  of  the  import  VAT  charge 
and  Sotheby's  will  be  unable  to  refund  the 
VAT  charged  on  deposit. 

7.     VAT  Refunds  from  HM  Customs 
&  Excise 

Where  VAT  charged  cannot  be  cancelled  or 
refunded  by  Sotheby's,  it  may  be  possible  to 
seek  repayment  from  HM  Customs  &C  Excise. 
Repayments  in  this  manner  are  limited  to 


businesses  located  outside  the  UK  and  may  be 
considered  for  VAT  charged  on  buyer's 
premium  on  property  sold  under  the  normal 
VAT  rules  (i.e.  with  a  t  or  a  symbol)  or  import 
VAT  charged  on  the  hammer  price  and  buyer's 
premium  for  lots  sold  under  temporary 
importation  (i.e.  with  a  $  or  Q  symbol). 

Claim  forms  are  available  from: 
HM  Customs  &  Excise 
Overseas  Repayment  Section 
8th/ 13th  Directive 
Customs  House 
PO  Box  34 

Londonderry,  BT48  7AE 
Northern  Ireland 

Tel:  (44)  1504  372727 
Fax:  (44)  1504  372520 


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CONDITIONS  OF  BUSINESS  FOR  BUYERS 


The  nature  of  the  relationship 
between  Sotheby's,  Sellers  and 
Bidders  and  the  terms  on  which 
Sotheby's  (as  auctioneer)  and  Sellers 
contract  with  Bidders  are  set  out 
below.  Bidders'  attention  is 
specifically  drawn  to  Conditions  3 
and  4  below,  which  require  them  to 
investigate  lots  prior  to  bidding  and 
which  contain  specific  limitations  and 
exclusions  of  the  legal  liability  of 
Sotheby's  and  Sellers.  The  limitations 
and  exclusions  relating  to  Sotheby's 
are  consistent  with  its  role  as 
auctioneer  of  large  quantities  of 
goods  of  a  wide  variety.  Bidders 
should  pay  particular  attention  to 
these  Conditions. 


1 .      Introduction 

(a)  Sotheby's  and  Sellers'  contractual 
relationship  with  prospective  Buyers  is 
governed  by: 

(i)     these  Conditions  of  Business; 

(ii)    the  Conditions  of  Business  for  Sellers 

displayed  in  the  saleroom  and  which  are 

available  on  request; 

(iii)  Sotheby's  Authenticity  Guarantee  as 

printed  in  the  sale  catalogue;  and 

(iv)   any  additional  notices  and  terms  printed 

in  the  sale  catalogue, 

in  each  case  as  amended  by  any  saleroom 

notice  or  auctioneer's  announcement  at  the 

auction. 

(b)  As  auctioneer,  Sotheby's  acts  as  agent  for 
the  Seller.  A  sale  contract  is  made  directly 
between  the  Seller  and  the  Buyer.  However, 
Sotheby's  may  own  a  lot  (and  in  such 
circumstances  acts  in  a  principal  capacity  as 
Seller)  and/or  may  have  a  legal,  beneficial  or 
financial  interest  in  a  lot  as  a  secured  creditor 
or  otherwise. 


2.  Common  Terms 

In  these  Conditions  of  Business: 

"Bidder"  is  any  person  considering,  making 

or  attempting  to  make  a  bid,  by  whatever 

means,  and  includes  Buyers; 

"Buyer"  is  the  person  who  makes  the  highest 

bid  or  offer  accepted  by  the  auctioneer,  and 

includes  such  person's  principal  when  bidding 

as  agent; 

"Buyer's  Expenses"  are  any  costs  or  expenses 

due  to  Sotheby's  from  the  Buyer,  including  an 

amount  in  respect  of  applicable  VAT  thereon; 

"Buyer's  Premium"  is  the  commission 

payable  by  the  Buyer  on  the  Hammer  Price  at 

the  rates  set  out  in  the  Guide  for  Prospective 

Buyers; 

"Counterfeit"  is  as  defined  in  Sotheby's 

Authenticity  Guarantee; 

"Hammer  Price"  is  the  highest  bid  accepted 

by  the  auctioneer  by  the  fall  of  the  hammer,  or 

in  the  case  of  a  post-auction  sale,  the  agreed 

sale  price; 

"Purchase  Price"  is  the  Hammer  Price  and 

applicable  Buyer's  Premium  and  VAT; 

"Reserve"  is  the  (confidential)  minimum 

Hammer  Price  at  which  the  Seller  has  agreed 

to  sell  a  lot; 

"Seller"  is  the  person  offering  a  lot  for  sale 

(including  their  agent  (other  than  Sotheby's), 

executors  or  personal  representatives); 

"Sotheby's"  means  Sotheby's,  the  unlimited 

company  which  has  its  registered  office  at  34- 

35  New  Bond  Street,  London  W1A  2AA; 

"Sotheby's  Company"  is  Sotheby's  Holdings, 

Inc.  and  any  of  its  subsidiaries  (within  the 

meaning  of  Section  736  of  the  Companies  Act 

1985)  (including  Sotheby's); 

"VAT"  is  Value  Added  Tax  at  the  prevailing 

rate.  Further  information  is  contained  in  the 

Guide  for  Prospective  Buyers. 

3.  Duties  of  Bidders  and  of  Sotheby's  in  respect  of 
items  for  sale 

(a)    Sotheby's  knowledge  in  relation  to  each 
lot  is  partially  dependent  on  information 
provided  to  it  by  the  Seller,  and  Sotheby's  is 
not  able  to  and  does  not  carry  out  exhaustive 
due  diligence  on  each  lot.  Bidders 
acknowledge  this  fact  and  accept 
responsibility  for  carrying  out  inspections  and 
investigations  to  satisfy  themselves  as  to  the 
lots  in  which  they  may  be  interested. 


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(b)  Each  lot  offered  for  sale  at  Sotheby's  is 
available  for  inspection  by  Bidders  prior  to  the 
sale.  Sotheby's  accepts  bids  on  lots  solely  on 
the  basis  that  Bidders  (and  independent 
experts  on  their  behalf,  to  the  extent 
appropriate  given  the  nature  and  value  of  the 
lot  and  the  Bidder's  own  expertise)  have  fully 
inspected  the  lot  prior  to  bidding  and  have 
satisfied  themselves  as  to  both  the  condition 
of  the  lot  and  the  accuracy  of  its  description. 

(c)  Bidders  acknowledge  that  many  lots  are 
of  an  age  and  type  which  means  that  they  are 
not  in  perfect  condition.  All  lots  are  offered 
for  sale  in  the  condition  they  are  in  at  the  time 
of  the  auction  (whether  or  not  Bidders  are  in 
attendance  at  the  auction).  Condition  reports 
may  be  available  to  assist  when  inspecting  lots. 
Catalogue  descriptions  and  condition  reports 
may  on  occasions  make  reference  to  particular 
imperfections  of  a  lot,  but  Bidders  should 
note  that  lots  may  have  other  faults  not 
expressly  referred  to  in  the  catalogue  or 
condition  report.  Illustrations  are  for 
identification  purposes  only  and  will  not 
convey  full  information  as  to  the  actual 
condition  of  lots. 

(d)  Information  provided  to  Bidders  in 
respect  of  any  lot,  including  any  estimate, 
whether  written  or  oral  and  including 
information  in  any  catalogue,  condition  or 
other  report,  commentary  or  valuation,  is  not 
a  representation  of  fact  but  rather  is  a 
statement  of  opinion  genuinely  held  by 
Sotheby's.  Any  estimate  may  not  be  relied  on 
as  a  prediction  of  the  selling  price  or  value  of 
the  lot  and  may  be  revised  from  time  to  time 
in  Sotheby's  absolute  discretion. 

(e)  No  representations  or  warranties  are 
made  by  Sotheby's  or  the  Seller  as  to  whether 
any  lot  is  subject  to  copyright  or  whether  the 
Buyer  acquires  copyright  in  any  lot. 

(f)  Subject  to  the  matters  referred  to  at  3  (a) 
to  3(e)  above  and  to  the  specific  exclusions 
contained  at  Condition  4  below,  Sotheby's 
shall  exercise  such  reasonable  care  when 
making  express  statements  in  catalogue 
descriptions  or  condition  reports  as  is 
consistent  with  its  role  as  auctioneer  of  lots  in 
the  sale  to  which  these  Conditions  relate,  and 
in  the  light  of  (i)  the  information  provided  to 
it  by  the  Seller;  (ii)  scholarship  and  technical 
knowledge;  and  (iii)  the  generally  accepted 
opinions  of  relevant  experts,  in  each  case  at 
the  time  any  such  express  statement  is  made. 


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4.  Exclusions  and  limitations  of  liability  to 
Buyers 

(a)  Sotheby's  shall  refund  the  Purchase  Price 
to  the  Buyer  in  circumstances  where  it  deems 
that  the  lot  is  a  Counterfeit  and  each  of  the 
conditions  of  the  Authenticity  Guarantee  has 
been  satisfied. 

(b)  In  the  light  of  the  matters  in  Condition  3 
above  and  subject  to  Conditions  4(a)  and 
4(e),  neither  any  Sotheby's  Company  nor  the 
Seller: 

(i)     is  liable  for  any  errors  or  omissions  in 
information  provided  to  Bidders  by  Sotheby's 
(or  any  Sotheby's  Company),  whether  orally 
or  in  writing,  whether  negligent  or  otherwise, 
except  as  set  out  in  Condition  3(f)  above; 
(ii)    gives  any  guarantee  or  warranty  to 
Bidders  and  any  implied  warranties  and 
conditions  are  excluded  (save  in  so  far  as  such 
obligations  cannot  be  excluded  by  law)  other 
than  the  express  warranties  given  by  the  Seller 
to  the  Buyer  in  Condition  2  of  the  Sellers' 
Conditions  of  Business; 
(iii)  accepts  responsibility  to  any  Bidders  in 
respect  of  acts  or  omissions  (whether  negligent 
or  otherwise)  by  Sotheby's  in  connection  with 
the  conduct  of  auctions  or  for  any  matter 
relating  to  the  sale  of  any  lot. 

(c)  Unless  Sotheby's  owns  a  lot  offered  for 
sale,  it  is  not  responsible  for  any  breach  of 
these  conditions  by  the  Seller. 

(d)  Without  prejudice  to  Condition  4(b), 
any  claim  against  Sotheby's  or  the  Seller  by  a 
Bidder  is  limited  to  the  Purchase  Price  with 
regard  to  that  lot.  Neither  Sotheby's  nor  the 
Seller  shall  under  any  circumstances  be  liable 
for  any  consequential  losses. 

(e)  None  of  this  Condition  4  shall  exclude  or 
limit  Sotheby's  liability  in  respect  of  any 
fraudulent  misrepresentation  made  by 
Sotheby's  or  the  Seller,  or  in  respect  of  death 
or  personal  injury  caused  by  the  negligent  acts 
or  omissions  of  Sotheby's  or  the  Seller. 

5 .  Bidding  at  Auction 

(a)    Sotheby's  has  absolute  discretion  to 
refuse  admission  to  the  auction.  Bidders  must 
complete  a  Paddle  Registration  Form  and 
supply  such  information  and  references  as 
required  by  Sotheby's.  Bidders  act  as  principal 
unless  they  have  Sotheby's  prior  written 
consent  to  bid  as  agent  for  another  party. 


Bidders  are  personally  liable  for  their  bid  and 
are  jointly  and  severally  liable  with  their 
principal  if  bidding  as  agent. 

(b)  Sotheby's  advises  Bidders  to  attend  the 
auction  but  will  seek  to  carry  out  absentee 
written  bids  which  are  in  pounds  sterling  and, 
in  Sotheby's  opinion,  clear  and  received 
sufficiently  in  advance  of  the  sale  of  the  lot, 
endeavouring  to  ensure  that  the  first  received 
of  identical  written  bids  has  priority. 

(c)  Where  available,  written  and  telephone 
bids  are  offered  as  an  additional  service  for  no 
extra  charge,  at  the  Bidder's  risk  and  are 
undertaken  subject  to  Sotheby's  other 
commitments  at  the  time  of  the  auction, 
Sotheby's  therefore  cannot  accept  liability  for 
failure  to  place  such  bids.  Telephone  bids  may 
be  recorded. 

6.  Conduct  of  the  Auction 

(a)  Unless  otherwise  specified,  all  lots  are 
offered  subject  to  a  Reserve,  which  shall  be  no 
higher  than  the  low  presale  estimate  at  the 
time  of  the  auction. 

(b)  The  auctioneer  has  discretion  at  any  time 
to  refuse  any  bid,  withdraw  any  lot,  re-offer  a 
lot  for  sale  (including  after  the  fall  of  the 
hammer)  if  he  believes  there  may  be  error  or 
dispute,  and  take  such  other  action  as  he 
reasonably  thinks  fit. 

(c)  The  auctioneer  will  commence  and 
advance  the  bidding  at  levels  and  in 
increments  he  considers  appropriate  and  is 
entitled  to  place  a  bid  or  series  of  bids  on 
behalf  of  the  Seller  up  to  the  Reserve  on  the 
lot,  without  indicating  he  is  doing  so  and 
whether  or  not  other  bids  are  placed. 

(d)  Subject  to  Condition  6(b),  the  contract 
between  the  Buyer  and  the  Seller  is  concluded 
on  the  striking  of  the  auctioneer's  hammer, 
whereupon  the  Buyer  becomes  liable  to  pay 
the  Purchase  Price. 

(e)  Any  post-auction  sale  of  lots  offered  at 
auction  shall  incorporate  these  Conditions  as 
if  sold  in  the  auction. 

7.  Payment  and  Collection 

(a)     Unless  otherwise  agreed,  payment  of  the 
Purchase  Price  for  a  lot  and  any  Buyer's 
Expenses  are  due  in  pounds  sterling 
immediately  on  conclusion  of  the  auction  (the 
"Due  Date")  notwithstanding  any 
requirements  for  export,  import  or  other 
permits  for  such  lot. 


(b)  Title  in  a  purchased  lot  will  not  pass  until 
Sotheby's  has  received  the  Purchase  Price  and 
Buyer's  Expenses  for  that  lot  in  cleared  funds. 
Sotheby's  is  not  obliged  to  release  a  lot  to  the 
Buyer  until  title  in  the  lot  has  passed,  and  any 
earlier  release  does  not  affect  the  passing  of 
title  or  the  Buyer's  unconditional  obligation 
to  pay  the  Purchase  Price  and  Buyer's 
Expenses. 

(c)  The  Buyer  is  obliged  to  arrange 
collection  of  purchased  lots  within  five  days  of 
the  auction.  Purchased  lots  are  at  the  Buyer's 
risk  (and  therefore  their  sole  responsibility  for 
insurance)  from  the  earliest  of  i)  collection  or 
ii)  five  days  after  the  auction.  Until  risk 
passes,  Sotheby's  will  compensate  the  Buyer 
for  any  loss  or  damage  to  the  lot  up  to  a 
maximum  of  the  Purchase  Price  paid.  Buyers 
should  note  that  Sotheby's  assumption  of  risk 
for  loss  or  damage  is  subject  to  the  exclusions 
set  out  in  Condition  6  of  the  Conditions  of 
Business  for  Sellers. 

(d)  For  all  items  stored  by  a  third  party  and 
not  available  for  collection  from  Sotheby's 
premises,  the  supply  of  authority  to  release  to 
the  Buyer  shall  constitute  collection  by  the 
Buyer. 

(e)  All  packing  and  handling  is  at  the  Buyer's 
risk.  Sotheby's  will  not  be  liable  for  any  acts  or 
omissions  of  third  party  packers  or  shippers. 

Remedies  for  non-payment 
Without  prejudice  to  any  rights  the  Seller  may 
have,  if  the  Buyer  without  prior  agreement 
fails  to  make  payment  for  the  lot  within  five 
days  of  the  auction,  Sotheby's  may  in  its  sole 
discretion  (having  informed  the  Seller) 
exercise  one  or  more  of  the  following 
remedies: 

(a)  store  the  lot  at  its  premises  or  elsewhere 
at  the  Buyer's  sole  risk  and  expense; 

(b)  cancel  the  sale  of  the  lot; 

(c)  set  off  any  amounts  owed  to  the  Buyer  by 
a  Sotheby's  Company  against  any  amounts 
owed  to  Sotheby's  by  the  Buyer  in  respect  of 
the  lot; 

(d)  reject  future  bids  from  the  Buyer  or 
render  such  bids  subject  to  payment  of  a 
deposit; 

(e)  charge  interest  at  4%  per  annum  above 
Barclays  Bank  pic  Base  Rate  from  the  Due 
Date  to  the  date  the  Purchase  Price  and 
relevant  Buyer's  Expenses  are  received  in 
cleared  funds; 

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(f)  exercise  a  lien  over  any  of  the  Buyer's 
property  which  is  in  the  possession  of  a 
Sotheby's  Company.  Sotheby's  shall  inform 
the  Buyer  of  the  exercise  of  any  such  lien  and 
within  14  days  of  such  notice  may  arrange  the 
sale  of  such  property  and  apply  the  proceeds 
to  the  amount  owed  to  Sotheby's; 

(g)  resell  the  lot  by  auction  or  private  sale, 
with  estimates  and  reserves  at  Sotheby's 
discretion.  In  the  event  such  resale  is  for  less 
than  the  Purchase  Price  and  Buyer's  Expenses 
for  that  lot,  the  Buyer  will  remain  liable  for 
the  shortfall  together  with  all  costs  incurred  in 
such  resale; 

(h)    commence  legal  proceedings  to  recover 
the  Purchase  Price  and  Buyer's  Expenses  for 
that  lot,  together  with  interest  and  the  costs  of 
such  proceedings  on  a  full  indemnity  basis;  or 
(i)     release  the  name  and  address  of  the  Buyer 
to  the  Seller  to  enable  the  Seller  to  commence 
legal  proceedings  to  recover  the  amounts  due 
and  legal  costs.  Sotheby's  will  take  reasonable 
steps  to  notify  the  Buyer  prior  to  releasing 
such  details  to  the  Seller. 

9.  Failure  to  collect  purchases 

(a)  If  the  Buyer  pays  the  Purchase  Price  and 
Buyer's  Expenses  but  fails  to  collect  a 
purchased  lot  within  fourteen  calendar  days  of 
the  auction,  the  lot  will  be  stored  at  the 
Buyer's  expense  (and  risk)  at  Sotheby's  or  with 
a  third  party. 

(b)  If  a  purchased  lot  is  paid  for  but  not 
collected  within  six  months  of  the  auction,  the 
Buyer  authorises  Sotheby's,  having  given 
notice  to  the  Buyer,  to  arrange  a  resale  of  the 
item  by  auction  or  private  sale,  with  estimates 
and  reserves  at  Sotheby's  discretion.  The 
proceeds  of  such  sale,  less  all  costs  incurred  by 
Sotheby's,  will  be  forfeited  unless  collected  by 
the  Buyer  within  two  years  of  the  original 
auction. 

10.  Export 

It  is  the  Buyer's  sole  responsibility  to  obtain 
any  necessary  export,  import,  firearm, 
endangered  species  or  other  permit  for  the  lot. 
Without  prejudice  to  Conditions  3  and  4 
above,  Sotheby's  and  the  Seller  make  no 
representations  or  warranties  as  to  whether 
any  lot  is  subject  to  export  or  import 
restrictions  or  any  embargoes. 


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The  denial  of  any  permit  or  licence  shall  not 
justify  cancellation  or  rescission  of  the  sale 
contract  or  any  delay  in  payment. 

1 1 .  General 

(a)  All  images  and  other  materials  produced 
for  the  auction  are  the  copyright  of  Sotheby's, 
for  use  at  Sotheby's  discretion. 

(b)  Notices  to  Sotheby's  should  be  in  writing 
and  addressed  to  the  department  in  charge  of 
the  sale,  quoting  the  reference  number 
specified  at  the  beginning  of  the  sale 
catalogue.  Notices  to  Sotheby's  clients  shall 
be  addressed  to  the  last  address  formally 
notified  by  them  to  Sotheby's. 

(c)  Should  any  provision  of  these  Conditions 
of  Business  be  held  unenforceable  for  any 
reason,  the  remaining  provisions  shall  remain 
in  full  force  and  effect. 

(d)  These  Conditions  of  Business  are  not 
assignable  by  any  Buyer  without  Sotheby's 
prior  written  consent,  but  are  binding  on 
Buyers'  successors,  assigns  and  representatives. 
No  act,  omission  or  delay  by  Sotheby's  shall 
be  deemed  a  waiver  or  release  of  any  of  its 
rights. 

(e)  The  Contracts  (Rights  of  Third  Parties) 
Act  1999  is  excluded  by  these  Conditions  of 
Business  and  shall  not  apply  to  any  contract 
made  pursuant  to  them. 

(f)  The  materials  listed  in  Condition  l(a) 
above  set  out  the  entire  agreement  and 
understanding  between  the  parties  with 
respect  to  the  subject  matter  hereof.  It  is 
agreed  that,  save  in  respect  of  liability  for 
fraudulent  misrepresentation,  no  party  has 
entered  into  any  contract  pursuant  to  these 
terms  in  reliance  on  any  representation, 
warranty  or  undertaking  which  is  not 
expressly  referred  to  in  such  materials. 

12.  Data  Protection 

Sotheby's  will  use  information  provided  by  its 
clients  or  which  Sotheby's  otherwise  obtains 
relating  to  its  clients  for  the  provision  of 
auction  and  other  art-related  services,  real 
estate  and  insurance  services,  client 
administration,  marketing  and  otherwise  to 
manage  and  operate  its  business,  or  as 
required  by  law. 


Some  gathering  of  information  about 
Sotheby's  clients  will  take  place  using 
technical  means  to  identify  their  preferences 
and  provide  a  higher  quality  of  service  to 
them,  and  Sotheby's  may  gather  information 
about  its  clients  through  video  images  or 
through  the  use  of  monitoring  devices  used  to 
record  telephone  conversations. 

Sotheby's  will  generally  seek  clients'  express 
consent  before  gathering  any  sensitive  data, 
unless  otherwise  permitted  by  law.  Bidders 
agree  that  Sotheby's  may  use  any  sensitive 
information  that  they  supply  to  Sotheby's. 

By  agreeing  to  these  Conditions  of  Business, 
Bidders  agree  to  the  processing  of  their 
personal  information  and  also  to  the 
disclosure  and  transfer  of  such  information  to 
any  Sotheby's  Company  and  to  third  parties 
anywhere  in  the  world  for  the  above  purposes, 
including  to  countries  which  may  not  offer 
equivalent  protection  of  personal  information 
to  that  offered  in  the  UK.  Bidders  can  prevent 
the  use  of  their  personal  information  for 
marketing  purposes  at  any  time  by  notifying 
Sotheby's. 

13.    Law  and  Jurisdiction 

Governing  Law  These  Conditions  of  Business 
and  all  aspects  of  all  matters,  transactions  or 
disputes  to  which  they  relate  or  apply  shall  be 
governed  by  and  interpreted  in  accordance 
with  English  law. 

Jurisdiction  For  the  benefit  of  Sotheby's,  all 
Bidders  and  Sellers  agree  that  the  Courts  of 
England  are  to  have  exclusive  jurisdiction  to 
settle  all  disputes  arising  in  connection  with 
all  aspects  of  all  matters  or  transactions  to 
which  these  Conditions  of  Business  relate  or 
apply.  All  parties  agree  that  Sotheby's  shall 
retain  the  right  to  bring  proceedings  in  any 
court  other  than  the  Courts  of  England. 

Service  of  Process  All  Bidders  and  Sellers 
irrevocably  consent  to  service  of  process  or 
any  other  documents  in  connection  with 
proceedings  in  any  court  by  facsimile 
transmission,  personal  service,  delivery  by 
mail  or  in  any  other  manner  permitted  by 
English  law,  the  law  of  the  place  of  service  or 
the  law  of  the  jurisdiction  where  proceedings 
are  instituted,  at  the  last  address  of  the  Buyer 
or  Seller  known  to  Sotheby's  or  any  other 
usual  address. 


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287 


Bookshop  &  Mail  Order  Books 

Clare  Klos  020  7293  5404 

Client  Assistance 

Enquiries  020  7293  5002 

Catalogue  Subscriptions 

Katherine  MacDonald  020  7293  5458 

Client  Accounts 

Michael  Hart  020  7293  5890 

Sotheby's  Institute  of  Art 

Diana  Keith  Neal  020  7293  5337 

New  York 

].  Thomas  Savage  212  894  1 1 1 1 


Financial  Services 

Ann-Marie  Jones 

New  York 
Shelley  Fischer 

Furniture  Restoration 

Roddy  McVittie 

New  York 
Colin  Stair 

House  Sales 

James  Miller 
Harry  Dalmeny 
Alexandra  Reece 


020  7293  5273 
212894  1144 

01403  833626 
212  860  5446 


020  7293  5405 
020  7293  5848 
02072935711 


Communications  &  Press 

Christopher  Proudlove 

Shipping 

Suzanne  Swan 

Tax  &  Heritage 

James  Jowitt 

New  York 

Warren  P.  Weitman,  Jr. 

Valuations 

William  Lucy 

New  York 
Lindsey  Pryor 


02072935165 
020  7293  5353 

020  7293  5335 
2126067198 

02072935178 
212894  1120 


Photography 

Wayne  Williams 


Layout  Editor 

Lynne  Sellers 

Colour  Editor 

Judith  Arnold 


Production  Controller 

David  Mountain 

Repro/Print 

SOT/DIT 


288 


SPECIALIST  DEPARTMENTS 

African  &  Oceanic  Art 

European  Sculpture  &  Works  of  Art 

Jewellery 

JeanFritts                                      2126067325 

Alexander  Kader 

020  7293  5493 

Geneva 

Jocelyne  Timm                           020  7293  5  1  09 

Elisabeth  Mitchell 

020  7293  5304 

Michael  Hall                            41  22  908  4843 

London  Liaison 

Diana  Keith  Neal 

020  7293  5337 

Alexandra  Rhodes                    4  1  22  908  4842 

Senior  Specialist 

Douglas  Walker                       4  1  22  908  4820 

Antiquities 

Simon  Stock 

02072935716 

, 

Richard  M.  Keresey                      212  774  5390 
Jocelyne  Timm                           020  7293  5  1  09 

Elizabeth  Wilson 
Senior  Specialist 

02072935321 

Martyn  Downer                         020  7293  5338 
Andres  White  Correal                020  7293  5847 

London  Liaison 

Paris 

International  Business  Development 

Art  Nouveau  &  Art  Deco 

Ulrike  Goetz 

33  1  5305  53  64 

Joanna  Hardy                             020  7293  5310 

Lydia  Cresswell-Jones                020  7293  5  1  37 
Philippe  Garner                          020  7293  5138 
Senior  Specialist 

English  Furniture 

Fergus  Lyons 
Daniel  Morris 

020  7293  5348 
020  7293  5486 

Daniela  Mascetti                       020  7293  5308 
Director  of  Educational  Studies 

Judaica 

Books  &  Manuscripts 

Scott  Nethersole 

020  7293  5347 

Camilla  Previte                          020  7293  5334 

Dr.  Stephen  Roe                        020  7293  5286 

Simon  Redburn 

020  7293  5746 

Tel  Aviv 

Paul  Quarrie  F.S.A.                      020  7293  5300 

Senior  Specialist 

Esta  Kilstein                             972  3  560  1666 

Roger  Griffiths                          020  7293  5292 
Charlotte  Brown                       020  7293  5296 

French  &  Continental  Furniture 

Medieval  Manuscripts 

Dr.  Peter  Beal  F.B.A.                    020  7293  5298 

Mario  Tavella 

020  7293  5052 

Peter  Kidd                                 020  7293  5330 

Dr.  Susan  Wharton                    020  7293  5299 

Maxine  Fox 

020  7293  5349 

Dr.  Christopher  de  Hamel  FSA 

Catherine  Slowther                    020  7293  529  1 

Patrick  van  der  Vorst 

020  7293  5733 

Consultant 

Peter  Selley                                 020  7293  5295 

Paris 

Brice  Foisil 

33  1  5305  5301 

Modern  British  &  Irish  Pictures 

Paris 
Dr  Jean-Baptiste  de  Proyart      33  1  5305  53  19 

Pierre-Francois  Dayot 
Zurich 

020  7293  5304 

&  Sculpture 

Susannah  Pollen                         020  7293  5388 

Milan 

Thomas  Boiler 

41  1  2020011 

Joanna  Doidge-Harrison           020  7293  5083 

FilippoLotti                                 392295001 

Milan 

Musical  Instruments 

British  Paintings  &  Drawings 

Francesco  Morroni 

39  2  295  00203 

Tim  Ingles                                 020  7293  5034 

1500-1850 

Amsterdam 

Graham  Wells                             020  7293  5342 

David  Moore-Gwyn                  020  7293  5406 

Jan  Willem  van  Haarem 

31  205502231 

Consultant 

Henry  Wemyss                           020  7293  5409 

Paul  Hayday                              020  7293  5344 

James  Miller                               020  7293  5405 

Impressionist  &  Modern  Art 

Lucy  Fenwick                            020  7293  5408 

Melanie  Clore 

020  7293  5394 

Music 

Guy  Peppiatt                              020  7293  54  1  0 

Philip  Hook 

020  7293  5223 

Dr.  Stephen  Roe                         020  7293  5286 

Helena  Newman 

020  7293  5397 

Dr.  J.S.E.  Maguire                    020  7293  5016 

Chinese  Ceramics  &  Works  of  Art 

Alastair  Gibson                           020  7293  5145 

Emmanuel  Di-Donna 

020  7293  5392 

Nineteenth  Century  European 

Julian  King                                 02072935148 

Geneva 

Paintings  &  Drawings 

JingChen                                  02072935071 

Guy  Jennings 

41  22  908  4834 

Adrian  Biddell                            020  7293  5380 

Caroline  Lang 

41  229084832 

Claude  Piening                           020  7293  5658 

Chinese  Export  Porcelain 

Paris 

Tessa  Kostrzewa                        020  7293  5382 

Alastair  Gibson                         020  7293  5145 

Andrew  Strauss 

33  1  5305  5355 

Amsterdam 

Don  Victor  Franco  de  Baux 

Simon  Shaw 

33  1  5305  5356 

Drs.  Eveline  Van  Oirschot        31  20  550  2255 

Heraldry  Consultant 

Milan 

Brussels 

Contemporary  Art 

Claudia  Dwek 

39  2  295  00250 

Michele  de  Kerchove                   32  2  627  7  1  89 

Cheyenne  Westphal                   020  7293  539  1 

Islamic  &  Indian  Art 

Madrid 

Oliver  Barker                              020  7293  5494 

Marcus  Fraser 

020  7293  5332 

Wendy  Loges                             34  9  1  532  6802 

Francis  Outred                           020  7293  5400 

Isabelle  Causse 

02072935155 

Milan 

Paris 

Nicholas  Shaw 

02072935154 

Dominique  Reiner                         39  2  29500  1 

Florence  de  Botton                   33  1  5305  5360 

Consultant 

Paris 

Milan 

Pascale  Pavageau                      33  1  5305  5310 

Claudia  Dwek                        39  02  2950  0250 

Zurich 

Amsterdam 

Rebekka  Grieshaber                    4112262257 

Miety  Heiden                           31  20  550  2254 

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SPECIALIST  DEPARTMENTS 

Old  Master  Paintings  &  Drawings 

Tapestries 

General  Paintings, 

Paintings 

George  Hughes-Hartman          020  7293  5455 

Drawings  &  Watercolours 

Alexander  Bell                           020  7293  5420 

Consultant 

Michael  Bing                             02072936135 

George  Gordon                         020  7293  54  1  4 

Patrick  van  der  Vorst                 020  7293  5733 

Dendy  Easton                           020  7293  5508 

Richard  Charlton-Jones            020  7293  5489 

Stephanie  Douglas                    020  7293  5469 

Veronique  Gunner                     02072935201 

Emily  Black                              02072935415 

Katherine  Macdonald-Buchanan 

Arabella  Chandos                      020  7293  542  1 

Travel  Sales 

02072936134 

LetiziaTreves                             020  7293  5850 

Guy  Peppiatt                             020  7293  54  1  0 

Charlotte  Willoughby               020  7293  6  1  32 

James  Macdonald                      020  7293  5887 

Victorian  Paintings  &  Drawings 

Rugs  &  Carpets 

Amsterdam 

Grant  Ford                                  020  7293  5497 

Raquel  Diaz  Downey                 020  7293  5  1  52 

Baukje  Coenen                          3  1  20  5  50  226  1 

Simon  Taylor                              020  7293  5385 

Judith  Niessen                          31  20  550  2258 

Senior  Specialist 

Arms  &  Armour 

Madrid 

Thomas  Del  Mar                      020  7293  5805 

James  Macdonald                     34  91  576  5714 

Wine 

Ian  Eaves,  Consultant 

I^Ilulfl 

Serena  Sutcliffe,  MW                   020  7293  5050 

Jurg  Meier,  International  Consultant 

Alberto  Chiesa                         39  2  2950  0207 

Stephen  Mould                         020  7293  5046 
Michael  Egan                            020  7293  5047 

Silver  &  Vertu 

Paris 

James  Reed                                02072935014 

Peter  Waldron                             020  7293  5  1  04 

Nicolas  Joly                              33153055341 

Richard  O'Mahony                   020  7293  5048 

Harry  Charteris                          020  7293  5  1  06 

Drawings 

Damian  Tillson                         020  7293  5851 

Daniel  Packer                             020  7293  5  1  02 

Gregory  Rubinstein                   020  7293  54  1  7 

Administration 

Julia  Clarke                               020  7293  5324 

Cristiana  Romalli                      02072935419 

Justin  Shreeve                             020  7293  504  1 

Julia  Cooke                               02072935103 

Alexandra  Chaldecott               020  7293  5333 

Munich 

Paintings  dr  Drawings 

SOTHEBY'S  AT  OLYMPIA 

Heinrich  Graf  von  Spreti          49892913151 

Julien  Stock                               02072935413 

General  Furniture,  Applied  Arts 

Amsterdam 

&  Works  of  Art 

Jacob  Roosjen                           31  20  550  2266 

Oriental  Manuscripts 

Jonathan  Meyer  F.R.I.C.S.           020  7293  5350 

Marcus  Eraser                            020  7293  5332 

Mark  Stephen                             020  7293  5507 

Japanese  Ceramics  &  Works  of  Art 

Isabelle  Causse                            020  7293  5  1  5  5 

Jeremy  Smith                              020  7293  5072 

Max  Rutherston                         020  7293  5  1  42 

Photographs 

Philippe  Garner                        020  7293  5  1  38 

Lee  Young                                 02072935509 
Jeremy  Morrison                       020  7293  5506 
Hans  Bowen                              020  7293  5  1  07 

Neil  Davey,  Senior  Specialist     020  7293  5  1  4  1 
Suzannah  Yip                              020  7293  5725 
Akemi  Ohta  Shann                   020  7293  5  1  43 

Senior  Specialist 

Consultant 

Lydia  Cresswell-Jones                 020  7293  5  1  37 

Clocks,  Watches  &  Barometers 

Michael  Turner                           020  7293  5329 

Textiles,  Costumes  &  Fashion,  Dolls, 

Prints 

Jonathan  Darracott                   020  7293  5810 

Bears  &  Automata 

Jonathan  Pratt                           020  7293  5212 

Alex  Barter                                020  7293  5327 

Kerry  Taylor                              020  7293  5464 

Susan  Harris                               020  7293  521  1 

Tina  Millar                                020  7293  5328 

Old  Masters 

Consultant 

Rock  &  Roll  &  Film  Memorabilia, 

Richard  Godfrey                       020  7293  5213 

Aeronautica 

Geneva 

Stephen  Maycock                      020  7293  5206 

Russian  Works  of  Art  &  Icons 

Nicolas  Clements                     41  22  908  4708 

Joanna  Vickery                           020  7293  5325 

Malin  Miller                            41  22  908  4856 

Sporting  Memorabilia 

Martyn  Saunders-Rawlins         020  7293  5325 

Scientific  &  Mechanical  Musical 

Graham  Budd                           020  7293  5269 

Consultant 

Instruments,  Marine  Works  of  Art 

SOTHEBY'S  ON-LINE 

Scottish  Paintings  &  Drawings 

Catherine  Southon                     020  7293  5209 

Jon  Baddeley                              020  7293  5205 

Grant  Ford                                020  7293  5497 

Jon  Baddeley 

Head  of  Department 

Senior  Specialist                         020  7293  5205 

Britt  Steensland  Andersen         020  7293  6  1  5  5 

Southeast  Asian  Paintings 

Mok  Kim  Chuan                          65  732  8239 

European  Ceramics  &  Glass 

General  Enquiries                     020  7293  6004 

Simon  Cottle                            020  7293  5  1  33 

Amsterdam 

Sebastian  Kuhn                         020  7293  5135 

BILLINGSHURST 

Miety  Heiden                           31  20  550  2254 

Phil  Howell                              020  7293  5505 

Garden  Statuary  &  Architectural  Items 

Swiss  Art 

Rebecca  Wintgens                     020  7293  5070 

Rupert  van  der  Werff                 01403  833561 

Zurich 

Sarah  O'Brien                           020  7293  5503 

Sporting  Guns 

Dr.  Lukas  Gloor                         41  1  226  2256 

Joanne  Cooper                          020  7293  5504 

Gavin  Gardiner                           01403833575 

Urs  Lamer                                  41  1  2262255 

Paris 

Militaria 

Peter  Arney                               02072935134 

Gordon  Gardiner                        0  1  403  833538 

Wildlife  Paintings 

Sally  Goddard                            0  1  403  833569 

8/01    G.Special2 

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INTERNATIONAL 

OFFICES 

UNITED  KINGDOM 

Devon  ejr  Cornwall 

Nottinghamshire  &  Derbyshire 

Ireland 

AND  IRELAND 

The  Hon.  Mrs.  d'Erlanger 

Mark  Newstead 

Arabella  Bishop 

Hensleigh  Cottage 

Nottingham 

Anne  Dillon 

SALE  ROOMS 

Hensleigh 

Telephone/Fax:  01  15  966  5478 

16  Molesworth  Street 

34-35  New  Bond  Street 
London  W1A  2AA 
and  Bloomfield  Place 

Tiverton 
Devon  EX16  5NH 
Telephone:  01  884  243  663 
Fax:  01  884  258  692 

Lord  Ralph  Kerr 
Melbourne,  Derbyshire 
Telephone:  01638  561426 
Fax:  01638  560094 

Dublin  2,  Ireland 
Telephone:  00  353  1  671  1786 
Fax:  00  353  1  679  7844 

off  New  Bond  Street 

Telephone:  020  7293  5000 

Elizabeth  Fortescue 
Lostwithiel,  Cornwall 

Yorkshire 

EUROPE  AND  MIDDLE  EAST 

Fax:  020  7293  5989 
Henry  Wyndham 

Telephone/Fax:  01208  871  133 

John  Phillips,  ARICS 
8-12  Montpellier  Parade 

AUSTRIA 

Chairman 
Robin  Woodhead 

Wessex 
Colin  Thompson 

H  arrogate 
North  Yorkshire  HG1  2TJ 

Andrea  Jungmann 
Palais  Wilczek 

Chief  Executive 

Jeremy  Waite 

Telephone:  01423  501466 

Herrengasse  5 

George  Bailey 

Cheviot  House 

Fax:  01423  520501 

A-  10  10  Vienna 

Managing  Director 

Olympia 
Hammersmith  Road 

69-73  Castle  Street 
Salisbury,  Wiltshire  SP1  3SP 
Telephone:  01  722  330793 
Fax:  01722  330982 

Henry  Bowring 
Kirkby  Lonsdale,  Cumbria 
Telephone/Fax:  01524  276464 

Telephone:  43  1  512  4772/3 
&  513  3774 
Fax:  43  1  5134867 

London  W14  8UX 

Telephone:  020  7293  5555 

EastAnglia  &  the  East  Midlands 

Northern  England 

BELGIUM 

Fax:  020  7293  6939 

Chantal  Langley 

Matthew  Festing,  OBE 
Unit  12A, 

Count  Hubert  d'Ursel 

Timothy  Wonnacott,  FRICS 
Chairman 
Paul  Sumner 

David  Asher 
The  Railway  Station 
Green  Road 

Stocksfield  Hall,  Stocksfield 
Northumberland  NE43  7TN 

Monique  Brehier 
32  rue  Jacques  Jordaens 

Managing  Director 
Summers  Place 

Newmarket 
Suffolk  CBS  9TW 
Telephone:  01  638  56  1426 

Telephone:  01661  843320 
Fax:  01661  843  969 

Judith  Heelis 

1000  Brussels 
Telephone:  32  2  648  0080 
Fax:  32  2  648  0757 

Billingshurst 

Fax:  01638  560094 

Appleby,  Cumbria 

Sussex  RH1  4  9  AD 
Telephone:  01  403  833500 
Fax:  01  403  833699 
Timothy  Wonnacott,  FRICS 
Chairman 

The  Lord  Cranworth 
Woodbridge,  Suffolk 
Telephone:  01  473  735581 
Fax:  01473  738278 

Telephone/Fax:  01768  352806 

Channel  Islands 
Clare  d'Abo 
Telephone:  020  7293  5363 

CZECH  REPUBLIC 

Filip  Marco 
Ungelt-Tynsky  Dvur 
Mala  Stupartska  5 

Alistair  Morris,  FRICS 
Managing  Director 

Sara  Foster 
Fakenham,  Norfolk 

Fax:  020  7293  5907 
Scotland  dr  Borders 

1  1  0  00  Prague  1 
Telephone/Fax:  42  02  2482  6538 

REGIONAL  REPRESENTATIVES 

Telephone:  01  328  700032 

John  Robertson 

DENMARK 

LJ              /~ 

Fax:  01328  700155 

C       '1      D   Ik           R 

John  Hudson 

Telephone:  020  7293  5897 

Fax:  020  7293  5934 

Kent  &  East  Sussex 
Timothy  Wonnacott,  FRICS 
Telephone:  01403  833500 
Fax:  01403  833699 

Cotswolds,  South  Wales  6-  the 
West  Midlands 
John  Harvey 
1 8  Imperial  Square 
Cheltenham 

Gloucestershire  GL50  1QZ 
Telephone:  01 242  5 10500 
Fax:  01 242 250252 

Charles  Hignett 
Bath,  Somerset 
Telephone:  01225  840101 
Fax:  01225  840696 


Northamptonshire 
Mary  Miller 
Towcester 
Northamptonshire 
Telephone:  01327  860020 
Fax:  01 327  8606 12 

North  West  6- North  Wales 
Gareth  Williams 
The  Hon.  Rose  Paterson 
Lightfoot  Street 
Hoole,  Chester 
Cheshire  CH2  3AD 
Telephone:  01 244  3 15531 
Fax:  01244  346984 

The  Marchioness  of  Linlithgow 
Powys,  Wales 

Telephone:  01691  648646 
Fax:  01 691  648664 


Georgiana  Bruce 
112  George  Street 
Edinburgh  EH2  4LH 
Telephone:  013 1226  7201 
Fax:  0131  2266866 

Anthony  Weld  Forester 
130  Douglas  Street 
Glasgow  G2  4HF 
Telephone:  0141  2214817 
Fax:  0141  2042502 

Northern  Ireland 
William  Montgomery 
The  Estate  Office 
Grey  Abbey 
Newtownards 
Co.  Down  BT22  2QA 
Telephone:  028  4278  8668 
Fax:  028  4278  8652 


Hanne  Wedell-Wedellsborg 
Tina  Hansen 
Vognmagergade  9 
1 120  Copenhagen  K 
Telephone:  45  33  135556 
Fax:  45  33  930 119 

FINLAND 

Claire  Svartstrom 
Bernhardinkatu  IB 
00  130  Helsinki 
Telephone:  358  9  622  1558 
Fax:  358  9  680  1208 


INTERNATIONAL  OFFICES 


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FRANCE 

Paris 

Princesse  de  Beauvau  Craon 
P. D.G.,  France 
Deputy  Chairman,  Europe 
Jean-Baptiste  de  Proyart 
Vice- President,  France 
Peter  Arney 
Managing  Director 
Jeremy  Durack 
Finance  &  Operations  Director 

76  rue  du  Faubourg  St.  Honore 
75008  Paris 

Telephone:  33  1  53  05  53  05 
Fax:  33  1  47  42  22  32 

Bordeaux 

Alain  de  Baritault 

Telephone/Fax:  33  5  56  58  72  04 

Lyon 

Albert  de  Franclieu 

Telephone/Fax:  33  4  76  07  15  52 

Montpellier 
Beatrice  Viennet 
Telephone:  33  4  67  24  95  72 
Fax:  33  4  67  24  93  52 

Strasbourg 

Marie-France  Ludmann 
Telephone/Fax:  33  3  88  60  00  61 


Frankfurt 

Dr.  Philipp  Herzog  von 

Wurttemberg 

Managing  Director-Germany 

Nina  Buhne 

Mendelssohnstrasse  66 

D-60325  Frankfurt-am-Main 

Telephone:  49  69  74  07  87 

Fax:  49  69  74  69  01 

Munich 

Heinrich  Graf  von  Spreti 
President-  Germany 
Odeonsplatz  16 
D-80539  Munchen 
Telephone:  49  89  291  31  51 
Fax:  49  89  299  271 

Cologne 

Ursula  Niggemann 
Vice  President-Germany 
Jorg-Michael  Bertz 
Vice  President-Germany 
St.  Apern  -  Strasse  17-21 
D-50667  Koln 
Telephone:  49  221  207170 
Fax:  49  221  2574359 


Hamburg 
Axel  Benz 
Tesdorpfstrasse  22 
D-20148  Hamburg 
Telephone:  49  40  44  40  80 
Fax:  49  40  41 070  82 


Rivka  Saker 

46  Rothschild  Boulevard 
Tel  Aviv  66883 
Telephone:  972  3  560 1666 
Fax:  972 3 56081 11 


Filippo  Lotti 
Managing  Director 

Milan 

Filippo  Lotti 

Claudia  Dwek 

Deputy  Chairman 

Palazzo  Broggi 

Via  Broggi  19,  20129  Milan 

Telephone:  39  02  29  5001 

Fax:  39  02  29  5 18595 

Rome 

Luisa  Lepri 

Director 

Silvia  Geddes  da  Filicaia 

Piazza  di  Spagna  90 

00 187  Rome 

Telephone:  39  0  6  699  41791 

Fax:  39  06  679  6 167 

Florence 

Clementina  Bartolini  Salimbeni 
Telephone:  39  0  55  247  9021 
Fax:  39  0  55  247  9563 

Turin 

Laura  Russo 

Director 

Corso  Galileo,  Ferraris  18B 

10121  Turin 

Telephone:  39  0  1 1  544898 

Fax:  39  0  1 1  547675 


LUXEMBOURG 

Please  refer  all  enquiries  to 
Count  Hubert  d'Ursel 
in  the  Brussels  Office 
Telephone:  32  2  648  0080 
Fax:  32  2  648  0757 

MONACO 

Mark  Armstrong 

B.P.45,  Le  Sporting  d'Hiver 

Place  du  Casino 

MC  98001  Monaco  Cedex 

Telephone:  377  93  30  88  80 

Fax:  377  93  25  24  98 

NETHERLANDS 

John  L.  van  Schaik 
Managing  Director 
Patrick  van  Maris 
Deputy  Managing  Director 
De  Boelelaan  30 
1 083  HJ  Amsterdam 
Telephone:  3 120  5 50  22  00 
Fax:  31  205502222 

NORWAY 

Ingeborg  Astrup 
Bj0rnveien  42,  0774  Oslo 
Telephone:  47  22  1472  82 
Fax:  47  22  49  38  36 


Madrid 

Carmen  Araoz  de  Urquijo 

Chairman 

Helene  Marie  Montgomery 

Managing  Director 

Serrano  32,  2°  Int-Dcha 

28001  Madrid 

Telephone:  34  91  5765714 

Fax:  34  91  781  2490 


SWEDEN 

Stockholm 

Lars  Nedergaard 

Arsenalsgatan  6 

S  -  1 1 1  47  Stockholm 

Telephone:  46  8  679  5478 

Fax:  46  8  61 14826 

Gothenburg 
Viviann  Kempe 
Villa  Thalatta 
James  Keillers  Vag  1 2 
S  -  429  43  SARO 
Telephone:  46  31  937150 
Fax:  46  31  937550 

South  Sweden 
Baroness  Catharina  von 
Blixen-Finecke 
Nasbyholm  Sateri 
S  -  274  94  SKURUP 
Telephone:  46  411  43981 
Fax:  46  41 143982 

SWITZERLAND 

Guy  Jennings 
Chairman 

Geneva 

Peter-Paul  Guthman 

13  Quai  du  Mont  Blanc 

CH-  1201  Geneva 

Telephone:  41  229084800 

Fax:  41  22  908  4804 

Zurich 

Dr.  Claudia  Steinfels 
Gessnerallee  1 
CH-8021  Zurich 
Telephone:  41  1  2262200 
Fax:  41  1  2262201 

Lugano 
Iris  Fabbri 
Riva  Caccia  4a 
CH  -  6900  Lugano 
Telephone:  41  91  993  3060 
Fax:  41  91  9933061 


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INTERNATIONAL  OFFICES 


AFRICA 

SOUTH  AFRICA 

Johannesburg 
Stephan  Welz 
Mannrim  Director 

o      o 

13  Biermann  Avenue 
Rosebank 

Johannesburg  2196 
Telephone:  27  11  8803125/9 
Fax:  27  1 1  880  2656 

Cape  Town 

PO  Box  818 

Constantia  7848 

Cape  Town 

South  Africa 

Telephone:  27  21  794  6461 

Fax:  27  21  7946621 

ASIA 

CHINA 

Wang  Jie 

Dynasty  Business  Centre 

Room  401 

457  Wu  Lu  Mu  Qi  Road  (N) 

Shanghai  200040,  PRC 

Tel:  86  21  6249  7450 

Fax:  86  21  62497451 

HONG  KONG 

Henry  Howard-Sneyd 

Managing  Director,  China  and 

Southeast  Asia 

5/F  Standard  Chartered  Bank 

Building 

4-4A  Des  Voeux  Road  Central 

Hong  Kong 

Telephone:  852  2524  8121 

Fax:  852  2810  6238 

INDONESIA 

Martina  Sudwikatmono* 
Mitra  Bldg.,  8th  Floor 
JL.  Gatot  Subroto,  Kav.  2 1 
Jakarta  12930 
Telephone:  62  21  5220156 
Fax:  62  21  5220074 


JAPAN 

Tetsuji  Shibayama 

President 

Fuerte  Kojimachi  Bldg.  3F 

1-7  Kojimachi 

Chiyoda-ku,  Tokyo  102 

Telephone:  81  3  3230  2755 

Fax:  81  332302754 

KOREA 

c/o  Hong  Kong  Office 
Telephone:  852  2524  8121 
Fax:  8  52  28 10  6238 


Walter  Cheah 
Manannv  Director 

o      o 

25  Jalan  Pudu  Lama 
50200  Kuala  Lumpur 
Telephone:  60  3  2070  03 19 
Fax:  60  3  2070  6833 

SINGAPORE 

Esther  Seet 

Managing  Director 

1  Cuscaden  Road 

01-01  The  Regent  Singapore 

Singapore  249715 

Telephone:  65  732  8239 

Fax:  65  737  0295 

TAIWAN,  R.O.C. 

Winnie  Chang 
Managing  Director 
1  st  Floor,  No.  77 
Sec.  1 ,  An  Ho  Road 
Taipei,  Taiwan,  R.O.C. 
Telephone:  886  2  2755  2906 
Fax:  886  2  2709  3949 


Rika  Dila 

Sotheby's  Representative 

Sukhothai  Hotel 

13/3  South  Sathorn  Rd 

Bangkok  10120 

Thailand 

Telephone:  662  286  0788 

&  662  286  0789 

Fax:  662  286  0787 


AUSTRALIA 

Justin  Miller 
Chairman 
Martin  Gallon 
Managing  Director 

Melbourne 

926  High  Street,  Armadale 
Melbourne,  Victoria  3143 
Telephone:  61  3  9509  2900 
Fax:  61  3  9563  5067 

Sydney 

Queen's  Court,  Level  1 

11 8- 122  Queen  Street 

Woollahra 

New  South  Wales  2025 

Telephone:  61  29362  1000 

Fax:  61  29362  1100 

LATIN  AMERICA 

ARGENTINA 

Buenos  Aires 

Adela  Mackinlay  de  Casal 

Avenida  Alvear  1640  (P.B.) 

C1014  AAQ,  Capital  Federal 

Argentina 

Telephone:  541  148144454 

Fax:  541  148145033 

BRAZIL 

Rio  de  Janeiro 

Katia  Mindlin  Leite  Barbosal 

Caixa  Postal  62619 

Rio  de  Janeiro 

RJ  CEP  22250-970 

Telephone:  55  21  2553  1946 

Fax:  55  21  25534594 

Heloise  Guinlet 

Estrada  da  Gavea  611 

Bloco  1,  Apt  2503 

Sao  Conrado 

22610-000  Gavea 

Rio  de  Janeiro 

Telephone:  55  21  3322  4500 

Fax:  55  21  3322  6397 

Sao  Paulo 

Pedro  Correa  do  Lago| 

Rua  Joao  Cachoeira  267 

Sao  Paulo  SP  CEP  04535-010 

Telephone:  55  11  3167  0066 

Fax:  55  11  3168  1559 


MEXICO 

Mexico  City 

Ana  Yturbe  de  Sepulveda 
Campos  Eliseos  325-5  Polanco 
Mexico  11560D.F. 
Telephone:  525281  2100 
Fax:  525  280  7 136 

Luis  C.  Lopez  Morton^: 
Jewelery  Consultant 
Monte  Athos  179 
Lomas  Virreyes 
C.P.  11000 
Mexico,  D.F. 

Telephone:  525  520  5005 
525  502  9936 
Fax:  525  540  32 13 

Monterrey 

Barbara  Perusquia  de  Lobeira^ 

Via  Triumphalis  127  PTE. 

Fuentes  Del  Valle 

Monterrey  66220,  Nuevo  Leon 

Telephone:  528  675  7573  /  74 

Fax:  528  129  5081 


Diana  Boccardo 

Edf.  Torresaman, 

Piso9,  Ofc91 

Avenida  Romulo  Gallegos 

con  calle  El  Carmen 

Los  Dos  Caminos,  Caracas  1 062 

Telephone:  58212  234  8298 

Fax:  58212  237  3920 

HEADQUARTERS 

1334  York  Avenue 

New  York,  New  York  10021 

Telephone:  212  606  7000 

Fax:  212  606  7107 

212  606  70 16  Bids  only 

OFFICES  AND  ASSOCIATES 


Atlanta 

Virginia  Groves  Beach  t 
77  West  Paces  Ferry 
Atlanta,  Georgia  30305 
Telephone:  404  355  7225 
Fax:  404  355  8599 


*  Associate  of  Sotheby's 

t  International  Representative 

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INTERNATIONAL  OFFICES 


293 


Baltimore 

Aurelia  Bolton* 

Elizabeth  Schroeder* 

P.O.  Box  250 

Riderwood,  Maryland  2 1 1 39 

Telephone:  41 0252  4600 

Fax:  410  561  9738 

Chicago 

21 5  West  Ohio  Street 

Chicago,  Illinois  60610 

Telephone:  312  396  9599 

Fax:  31 2  396  9598 

Helyn  D.  Goldenberg 

Chairman,  Midwest 

Larry  J.  Sirolli 

Managing  Director 

Cassie  Spencer 

Trusts  dr  Estates 

Eve  Reppen  Rogers 

Jewelry 

Richard  T.  Nelson 

Furniture  &  Decorative  Art 

Gary  F.  Metzner 

Fine  Arts 

Marcus  Tremonto 

Art  Nouveau  cjrArt  Deco 

Michael  Davis 

Paul  Hart 

Wine 

Marjorie  S.  Susmanf 

Dallas 

Serena  Ritch* 

Nancy  Strauss  Halbreich* 

The  Quadrangle 

2800  Routh  Street,  Suite  140 

Dallas,  Texas  75201 

Telephone:  2 14  871  1056 

Fax:  214  871  1057 

Delaware 

Barbara  C.  Riegel* 

P.O.  Box  67 

Montchanin,  Delaware  19710 

Telephone:  302  652  6570 

Fax:  302  652  6575 

Honolulu 

Andrea  Song  Gelber* 
P.O.  Box  177 
Honolulu,  Hawaii  968 10 
Telephone:  808  732  01 22 
Fax:  808  732  01 22 

Houston 

2001  Kirby  Drive,  Suite  805 
Houston,  Texas  77019 
Telephone:  71 3  524  0044 
Fax:  71 3  520  1602 


Los  Angeles 

9665  Wilshire  Blvd. 

Beverly  Hills,  California  90212 

Telephone:  3 10  274  0340 

Fax:  310  274  0899 

Andrea  L.  Van  de  Kamp 

Chairman,  West  Coast 

Richard  S.  Wolf 

Managing  Director,  West  Coast 

August  O.  Uribe 

Director,  Fine  Arts,  West  Coast 

Lisa  Hubbard 

International  Jewelry 

Katherine  Watkins 

Director,  Decorative  Arts 

Montana 

Kathryn  Wilmerding  Heminway 

Bar  20  Ranch 

West  Boulder  Reserve 

McLeod,  Montana  59052 

Telephone:  406  222  9399 

Fax:  406  222  0051 

Miami 

Douglas  Entrance 

800  Douglas  Road,  Suite  125 

Coral  Gables,  Florida  33134 

Telephone:  305  448  7882 

Fax:  305  448  7 168 

Axel  Stein 

Director 

Tracy  Sherman 

Jewelry 

Maria  Bonta  de  la  Pezuela 

Decorative  Arts 

Minneapolis/St.  Paul 
Laura  MacLennan 
2030  Foshay  Tower 
821  Marquette  Avenue 
Minneapolis,  Minnesota  55402 
Telephone:  612  332  8938 
Fax:  612  332  7456 

Naples 

Barbara  Deisroth 

Telephone/Fax:  813  261  6787 

New  England 

William  S.  Cottingham 

Director 

Patricia  Ward 

Representative 

67'/2  Chestnut  St. 

Boston,  Massachusetts  02108 

Telephone:  61 7  367  6323 

Fax:  617  367  4888 


New  York  City 

Barbara  Gates* 

Suzette  de  Marigny  Smith* 

Brooke  Douglass  de  Ocampo* 

Lee  Copley  Thawf 

Telephone:  212  606  7442 

North  Carolina 
Robert  V.  Ruggiero^ 
597  Fog  Hollow  Cove 
Clyde,  North  Carolina  28721 
Telephone:  828  627  6004 
Fax:  828  627  2059 

Palm  Beach 
225  Peruvian  Avenue 
Palm  Beach,  Florida  33480 
Telephone:  561  833  2582 
Fax:  561  655  4583 
David  G.  Ober 
Chairman,  Southeast 
Hope  P.  Kent* 
Louis  J.  Gartner* 

Philadelphia 

Angela  Hudson 

Director 

Wendy  Foulke 

1 8  Haverford  Station  Road 

Haverford,  Pennsylvania  1 904 1 

Telephone:  61 0649  2600 

Fax:  610  649  7995 

Richmond 

Virginia  Guest  Valentinef 
Telephone:  804  353  1579 
Fax:  804  353  0575 

San  Francisco 
Jennifer  Foley  Biederbeck 
Mrs.  Prentis  Cobb  Hale* 
Mrs.  John  N.  Rosekranst 
214  Grant  Avenue,  Suite  350 
San  Francisco,  California  94108 
Telephone:  41 5  772  9028 
Fax:  41 5  772  9031 

Santa  Barbara 
Robin  C.  Woodworth* 
661  Corte  de  Quintero 
Camarillo,  California  93010 
Telephone/Fax:  805  485  6120 


Seattle 

Catherine  Vare 

1 1 0  Union  Street 

Suite  300 

Seattle,  Washington  98101 

Telephone:  206  667  9575 

Fax:  206  667  9576 

St.  Louis 

Telephone:  312  396  9599 

Washington,  D.C. 
Sidney  Ferguson^ 
Penne  Percy  Keithf 


William  S.  Cottingham 
c/o  Margot  Cooper 
Property  Group  Ltd. 
Nautilus  House 
82  S.  Road 

Warwick  WK08  Bermuda 
Telephone:  44 1295  6891 
4412957392 

CANADA 

David  Silcox 
Managing  Director 
9  Hazelton  Avenue 
Toronto,  Ontario  M5R  2E1 
Telephone:  416  926  1774 
Fax:  416  926  9179 


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GUIDE  FOR  ABSENTEE  BIDDERS 


If  you  are  unable  to  attend  an  auction  in 
person,  you  may  give  Sotheby's  Bid 
Department  instructions  to  bid  on  your  behalf 
by  completing  the  form  opposite. 

This  service  is  free  and  confidential. 

Please  record  accurately  the  lot  numbers, 
descriptions  and  the  top  hammer  price  you  are 
willing  to  pay  for  each  lot. 

We  will  try  to  purchase  the  lot(s)  of  your 
choice  for  the  lowest  price  possible  and  never 
for  more  than  the  top  amount  you  indicate. 

"Buy"  or  unlimited  bids  will  not  be  accepted. 

Alternative  bids  can  be  placed  by  using  the 
word  "OR"  between  lot  numbers. 

Bids  must  be  placed  in  the  same  order  as  in 
the  catalogue. 

This  form  should  be  used  for  one  sale  only  - 
please  indicate  the  sale  number,  title  and  date 
on  the  form. 

Please  place  your  bids  as  early  as  possible,  as  in 
the  event  of  identical  bids  the  earliest  received 
will  take  precedence.  Wherever  possible  bids 
should  be  submitted  at  least  twenty-four  hours 
before  the  auction. 

Where  appropriate,  your  bids  will  be  rounded 
down  to  the  nearest  amount  consistent  with 
the  auctioneer's  bidding  increments. 

Absentee  bids,  when  placed  by  telephone,  are 
accepted  only  at  the  caller's  risk  and  must  be 
confirmed  by  letter  or  fax  to  the  Bid 
Department  on  020  7293  6959. 

Please  note  that  the  execution  of  written  bids 
is  offered  as  an  additional  service  for  no  extra 
charge  at  the  bidder's  risk  and  is  undertaken 
subject  to  Sotheby's  other  commitments  at  the 
time  of  the  auction;  Sotheby's  therefore 
cannot  accept  liability  for  failure  to  place  such 
bids,  whether  through  negligence  or 
otherwise. 

Successful  bidders  will  receive  an  invoice 
detailing  their  purchases  and  giving 
instructions  for  payment  and  clearance  of 
goods.  Unsuccessful  bidders  will  be  advised. 


Successful  buyers  of  large  objects  are  earnestly 
requested  to  arrange  early  collection  of  their 
goods. 

Bidders  on  large  objects  are  recommended  to 
check  on  the  afternoon  of  the  auction  whether 
they  have  been  successful. 

Lots  marked  W  in  the  catalogue  will  be  sent  to 
Kings  House  warehouse  immediately  after  the 
auction. 

All  bids  are  subject  to  the  conditions  of 
business  applicable  to  the  sale,  a  copy  of  which 
is  available  from  Sotheby's  offices  or  by 
telephoning  020  7293  6152.  Conditions  of 
Business  particularly  relevant  to  buyers  are 
also  set  out  in  the  sale  catalogue. 

Sotheby's  will  use  information  provided  by  its 
clients  or  which  Sotheby's  otherwise  obtains 
relating  to  its  clients  for  the  provision  of 
auction  and  other  art-related  services,  real 
estate  and  insurance  services,  client 
administation,  marketing  and  otherwise  to 
manage  and  operate  its  business,  or  as 
required  by  law.  Some  gathering  of 
information  about  Sotheby's  clients  may  take 
place  using  technical  means  to  indentify  their 
preferences  and  provide  a  higher  quality  of 
service  to  them,  and  Sotheby's  may  gather 
information  about  its  clients  through  video 
images  or  through  the  use  of  monitoring 
devices  used  to  record  telephone 
conversations.  Sotheby's  will  generally  seek 
clients'  express  consent  before  gathering  any 
sensitive  data,  unless  otherwise  permitted  by 
law.  You  agree  that  Sotheby's  may  use  any 
sensitive  information  that  you  supply  to 
Sotheby's.  By  signing  this  Absentee  Bid  Form, 
you  agree  to  the  processing  of  your  personal 
information  and  also  to  the  disclosure  and 
transfer  of  such  information  to  any  Sotheby's 
associated  company  and  to  third  parties 
anywhere  in  the  world  for  the  above  purposes, 
including  to  countries  which  may  not  offer 
equivalent  protection  of  personal  information 
to  that  offered  in  the  UK.  You  can  prevent 
the  use  of  your  personal  informaton  for 
marketing  purposes  at  any  time  by  notifying 
Sotheby's. 


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SOTHEBY'S 
HOLDINGS,  INC. 


SOTHEBY'S  EUROPE 

Board  of  Directors 

Henry  Wyndham 
Chairman 

Princess  de  Beauvau  Craon 
Deputy  Chairman 

Melanie  Clore 
Deputy  Chairman 

Guy  Jennings 
Deputy  Chairman 

Tobias  Meyer 
Deputy  Chairman 

The  Hon  James  Stourton 
Deputy  Chairman 

James  Miller 

Deputy  Chairman  UK 


Senior  Directors 

Peter  Arney 
Jonathan  Baddeley 
Adrian  Biddell 
Michael  Bing 
Thomas  Boiler 
Florence  de  Botton 
Richard  Charlton-Jones 
Natacha  Chiaramonte 
Tom  Christopherson 
Jennifer  Conner 
Jeff  Cook 
Jackie  Coulter 
Neil  Davey 
Marie-Odile  Deutsch 
Jeremy  Durack 
Marcus  Fraser 
Martin  Gallon 
Philippe  Garner 
Roger  Griffiths 
Michael  Hall 
Nicolas  Joly 
James  Jowitt 
Diana  Keith  Neal 
Marcus  Linell 
William  Lucy 
Patrick  van  Maris 
Jonathan  Massey 


Robin  Woodhead 
Chief  Executive 

George  Bailey 
Managing  Director 

Simon  Taylor 

Deputy  Managing  Director 


David  Moore-Gwyn 
Alistair  Morris 
Ursula  Niggemann 
Stefano  Papi 
Susannah  Pollen 
Jonathan  Pratt 
Christopher  Proudlove 
Jean-Baptiste  de  Proyart 
Paul  Quarrie 
Alexandra  Rhodes 
Dr.  Stephen  Roe 
Charles  Rolandi 
Rivka  Saker 
John  Van  Schaik 
Lucian  Simmons 
Julien  Stock 
Andrew  Strauss 
Peter  Waldron 
Sara  Webb 
Henry  Wemyss 
Elisabeth  Wilson 
Patricia  Wong 
Tim  Wonnacott 


Alex  Bell 
Claudia  Dwek 
George  Gordon 
Philip  Hook 
Paul  Mack 
Helena  Newman 
Margaret  Southern 
Heinrich  Graf  v.  Spreti 
Serena  Sutcliffe,  M.W. 
Mario  Tavella 
Hubert  d'Ursel 
Cheyenne  Westphal 
Philipp  von  Wiirttemburg 


Chairman's  Office,  UK 

Henry  Wyndham  Chairman 

Earl  of  Arundel 

Henry  Bowring 

Lord  Dalmeny 

Marquess  of  Harrington 

The  Hon  Simon  Howard 

James  Jowitt 

William  Lucy 

James  Miller 

David  Moore-Gwyn 

Alexander  Russell 

The  Hon  James  Stourton 

Hugo  Swire 

Timothy  Wonnacott 


Board  of  Directors 

Michael  I.  Severn 
Chairman 

Max  M.  Fisher 
Vice  Chairman 

Marquess  of  Harrington 
Deputy  Chairman 

William  F.  Ruprecht 
President  and  Chief 
Executive  Officer 

Robin  Woodhead 
Executive  Vice  President 
and  Chief  Executive, 
Europe  and  Asia 

The  Hon. 

Conrad  M.  Black,  P.C.,  O.C. 

The  Viscount  Blakenham 
George  Blumenthal 
Steven  B.  Dodge 
Dr.  Henry  G.  Jarecki 
Henry  R.  Kravis 
Jeffrey  H.  Miro 
Brian  S.  Posner 
Sharon  Percy  Rockefeller 
Robert  S.  Taubman 

Advisory  Board, 
Sotheby's  Holdings,  Inc. 

Ambassador  Walter  J. P.  Curley 
Chairman 

Giovanni  Agnelli 
Ann  Getty 
Alexis  Gregory 
Alexander  M.  Laughlin 
Sir  Q.W.  Lee 
John  L.  Marion 

The  Rt.  Hon. 

Sir  Angus  Ogilvy,  K.C.V.O. 

Carroll  Petrie 
Carol  Price 

Baron  Hans  Heinrich 
Thyssen-Bornemisza  de  Kaszon 


Lodewijk  J.R.  de  Vink 


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